Frankenstein Alone

Ever been in a situation where you have no ideas on what to do, and your mind just goes blank? This is what happens to Frankenstein's Creature. He is put into the world and the only person that could accept him, runs off in fear. This situation appears in the book Frankenstein; written by Mary Shelley. Because of Frankenstein the creature is forced to live a lonely life. Frankenstein himself runs away from society when he creates the Creature, which causes himself to become alone. Shelley uses imagery, foreshadowing, and point of view to convey the idea that nobody wants to be alone.

The first technique we will talk about is imagery, in the book Frankenstein Shelley uses imagery a lot to describe people’s emotions and to describe landscapes. In the middle of the book Frankenstein goes on a walk around Geneva during a storm, as he walks, he says

“while I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific….This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits”(Shelley, pg 61). Storms can look very beautiful, but Shelley uses this image to show fear; the fear of loneliness. Right here Frankenstein just lost one of his brothers, thus Frankenstein is sad and feels lonely; he wants his brother back, and to no longer feel lonely. Also the Creature is looking for his creator because he is lonely. Shelley also uses imagery to enhance the fact that the Creature is alone. We can see this when the Creature is observing the family “I longed to join them, but I dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers”(Shelley, pg 98). The Creature just stated that he was lonely and wants to gain friends, just like the human family. This shows that all things even monsters refuse to be lonely.
Next Shelley uses foreshadowing to express the fact that all people after the experience of feeling lonely and being alone, unquestionably just want and to acquire a few friends. At the very beginning of the book we are introduced to Robert Walton(Writer of the letters) and he states “But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend” (Shelley, pg 4). This foreshadows that maybe he will eventually find someone who will become a true friend. This also helps show that Shelly was placing in the idea that nobody wants to be alone. She even references this idea with somebody far from importance in the novel. Another example of the use of foreshadowing is when the Creature tells his tale to Frankenstein. He states “My mind expanded to gain knowledge; of brother, sister, and all relationships which bind one human to another in mutual bonds. But where were my friends and relations?”(Shelley, pg 109). This foreshadows the idea in order to show that the Creatures goal is to one day locate a friend or create a valuable relationship. Once more as already stated Shelley emphasizes the idea that nobody wants to be alone.
Lastly Shelley uses point of view to convey that nobody wishes to be lonely.

We can see an example of this when the Creature asks Frankenstein to make him a female monster. He states “I often refused to accompany him, alleging another engagement, that I might remain alone. I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like torture”(Shelley, pg 147) One of the biggest reasons Frankenstein didn't want to build another monster was because then he would be alone again, because last time he was alone for a long time he became very ill. Frankenstein's point of view was that he never wanted to be lonely again. Another example of how Shelley uses point view is shown when the Creature is observing the human family, he says “where were my friends and relations?”(Shelley, pg 147). The one thing the creature requested was a friend. Because it’s no fun being lonely. Consequently because of his actions Frankenstein is concerned too much of what a second monster could do. Furthermore the Creatures’ goal was only to have a friend, because he is really lonely and nobody wants to be

lonely.
Therefore, we can completely agree that Shelley uses these literary ideas to emphasize the loneliness in each character. Such as when Frankenstein doesn't want to make another monster because he does not want to be lonely again. The Creature has no friends, so his goal is to try to make friends; because he doesn't appreciate being alone. Robert Walton(man who wrote the letters at the beginning) says, he is sad, because he believes that friendship is a very important thing; but he doesn't have any friends. As we can Shelley constantly develops the idea that nobody wants to be alone. This book shows that all living things even monsters, live in fear of being alone.