Mary Shelly Rejection

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Mary Shelly wants to display to the readers that rejection can really take its toll on a human being because they do not feel accepted by the people around them. Shelly portrays this The creature prayed to be accepted by someone but no body tried to get to know him on the inside; they saw an ugly person and just assumed he had an ugly soul, when in reality all he wanted was love and compassion. People have a need to belong to a group and if you get rejected by the group you want to belong too then that would normally have a negative affect on your behavior and cause you to do stupid things. Countless studies have shown that rejection causes many people to take their anger out very easily on innocent bystanders. Rejection is a strong word

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