Isolation Causes Destruction In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Isolation Causes Destruction When people think of the story “Frankenstein”, they typically recall the story about a green monster with neck bolts; not an isolated monster who killed a bunch of people to get revenge on his creator. One can acquire many different themes from Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster who becomes isolated due to neglect. In the monster’s case, the isolation caused the idea of revenge, which ended with destruction. “Frankenstein” highlights the theme that isolation causes destruction due to the amount of neglect, loneliness, and discrimination the monster faces throughout the book, which ultimately leads to the monster’s killing rampage. Neglection may create feelings

The monster faced discrimination because others would run at the sight of him. People would not take their time to get to know him for his personality; they instead based the monster off of his appearance. The monster had a good heart at first but this discrimination caused him to turn evil and create destruction. “Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick” (Shelley 15). The family reacted with pure horror upon their approaching of the monster inside their house. The one girl fainted and the other rushed off leaving only the boy, Felix, who beat the monster violently. We can infer from this that after this experience with others, the monster wants nothing to do with mankind. So, the monster isolates himself from people and proceeds with a killing spree. The monster one day runs into a young boy named William and finds out that William belongs to the Frankenstein family. “He struggled violently. ‘Let me go,’ he cried; ‘monster! Ugly wretch! You wish t eat me and tear me to pieces. You are an ogre. Let me go, or I will tell my papa’” (Shelley 16). In other words, the child calls the monster awful

Isolation remains a recurring idea throughout the story. The idea of isolation helps support the theme. An isolated individual tends to want revenge on the person or situation that caused them to exist in isolation. This revenge usually ends in destruction. “Frankenstein” highlights this theme due to the amount of neglect, loneliness, and discrimination the monster faces throughout the book, which ultimately leads to the monster’s killing rampage. The monster desires to not remain an outsider in society. Since the monster remains isolated; he goes on a killing