Desolation In Frankenstein And A Christmas Carol

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The issue of isolation is a topic that can be found in the two novels “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley and Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” Being in an isolated state can shape one’s actions and can even become engrained in the shaping of how a person lives their lives. For starters, the issue of isolation suggests a state of complete lack of contact with people in the outside world, whether it be between an individual or society as a whole. As both novels progress, the reader will gain the understanding as to how being in an isolated state can change a person, for better or for worse.
Frankenstein is a novel that was littered with occurrences depicting murder, tragedy, and desolation. In spite of all the scenes of misery throughout …show more content…

He longed to become a member of society like the rest of the people of the nearby village but he knew because of earlier trials with those same people, he could not live alongside them peacefully. “What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people, and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavoring to discover the motives which influenced their actions"(Shelly). The monster isolated himself in order to learn how people lived their lives. His actions led to a manner of choice that made him learn from a distance, which in turn hurt his development in communication between himself and other people. His isolation turned into anger because instead of learning how to live alongside the villagers, he had to learn how to survive among them, causing his destructive behavior. Just as Victor’s isolation contributed to how he lived his life, the same can be said about the monster Victor

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