Lonliness In Frankenstein

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In the comic "Frankenstein", the monster shows a stronger lonlines than the speaker in the poem "Alienation". He get a little happiness from the family in the mountain, but lost it very soon. The lonliness the monster feels is stronger than before by get the warm then lost it, it is a stronger feeling than the speaker of "Alienation" that feels lonliness at all.

First of all, the monster in "Frankenstein" get a little feeling of home from the house on the mountain. He keep distance with them, and listen to their family talking. His feeling is shown on "The weeks passed happily for me -- one who had never witnessed kindness before. I felt part of them. I felt home."[page 12] After the horrible violence the vallige people did to him, he finally finds a peaceful space in the hovel, and he understands what thing does he need. Contrast to the speaker in "Allienation", he has a terrible inside but a beautiful outside, as the reverse of the monster. His lonliness is also from the people who do not like him "I am so different from these others here, a distance is kept from me."[line 18] Diffrent as monster, the speaker is alone from the begining to the end, not even got a little of happy like the monster. Then he might already be familier with lonliness.
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Then he is drived away from the house, "It's a daemon! Get back! Get away from him!"[page 47] like his experiences in the vallige. As he was kicked out, his heart is broken and he lost the beliving with human, and this make his loneliness harder and harder. Same as the monster, the speaker in "Allienation" is also full of crazy angry with people's active to him. "I do not let them see how much it agonizes, a hellfire rages inside."[line 22] He discribe his rages as hellfire to shows his inside as the response to what people do on him, and do not trust them

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