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    Frankenstein, a book written by Mary Shelley interconnects social genders, social isolation, and how we identify and react to the deconstruction. Frankenstein was initially trying to play God and the result was creating a monster. As gender would show it he thought of himself with the highest intellect, but he never thought about the consequences. Frankenstein created a monster that he left, abandon, and socially disconnects himself from to be in the world on his own, with no direction. It was…

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    gothic novel Frankenstein portrays the theme of isolation and all its negative effects on the characters. The creature is most affected by alienation from society and a lack of community. No one throughout the creatures life shows him complete acceptance. The creature’s disfigurement further divides him from those around him and inhibits his desire to join society. The creature’s feelings of solitude and abandonment by Victor provide it with a vengeful goal and reason to live. Isolation can…

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    Prolonged isolation affects essentially all parts of a person’s existence, compassion through the companionship of other humans is necessary for a person’s development and stability. Incidentally, in Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein,” the creature protagonist is abandoned at the start of his life. The reader then learns of the many struggles the creature faced in his forced isolation and the effect it has had on the creature. The creature yearns for companionship to cure his loneliness.…

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    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a gothic novel about the life of scientist Doctor Victor Frankenstein. He created life, and his creation a creature that is exceedingly grotesque. The gothic novel is full of despair, creativity, and displays many repetitive topics, such as the light of knowledge, and the role of women. However, one overwhelming theme in the novel consists of isolation and solitude. Frankenstein and his unnamed creature both endure destitution involving solitude, mostly due to the…

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    Isolation can slowly wither away the soul. This often leads to a combative and/or standoffish personality. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor attempts to create a human being in a laboratory by using various body parts that he finds in a cemetery. He wants his creation to look superhuman, yet beautiful as well. Unfortunately, Frankenstein’s creation turns out to be an odious beast unworthy of a gaze towards its direction. This hellish creation is released into the harsh reality. The monster…

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    Difference in experience will drastically change one’s viewpoint in life, as well as in afterlife. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein gives sentient life to a creature, and then abandons the Creation to act by its own rationale, which often appears irrational to other characters, and to the reader. The irrationality of the Creation is accentuated by the fact that no human has ever experienced the loneliness that accompanies being the only of one’s species. The similarities and…

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    becomes blinded by his own self-conviction when he is on the brink of finishing the development of the creature. By this point, many argue that the isolation aspect of Shelley’s argument becomes obsolete, choosing instead to focus on Victor’s abandonment of his responsibility for his creation. Many writers, such as Theodore Ziolkowski in “Science, Frankenstein, and Myth,” make the argument that the creature becomes evil because of Victor’s abandonment: “the creature, while ugly, is by no means…

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    Family, Society, Isolation, Is considered the theme that mostly ceases to happen in the novel of Frankenstein. Although it is very unconscionable to believe that Family, Society, And Isolation take place in a novel that talks about a monster that kills people and the creator being selfish about his creation. There tends to be a Misconnection between his family and friends that sets the character, Victor in isolation. In the beginning of the story, Victor is Set upon a family that loves him with…

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    In the same way, the Creature’s past of isolation causes him to lose his mind and seek vengeance on Victor. He entreats Victor with his very own perspective of lonesome by mentioning his agony of being “alone and miserable; man will not associate with me,” however offers solution to his torment by creating another monster “as deformed and horrible as [himself]” who “would not deny [herself] to him” (Shelley 123). Once again, the creature grows desperate for a relationship and creates hope by…

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    In today’s society, isolation is associated with the fear of being alone. Since the beginning of time, the human race has been accustomed to working and living within a group. Humans initially united in order to protect themselves from harm. Humans have worked together in order to benefit society as a whole and to be a strong, unified force against the continuous challenges of life (Roye). Society always will be a safe haven for humans. Primitive hominids realized that living in a group provides…

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