Isolation In Frankenstein

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In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the Creature executes extreme and irreversible acts due to his isolation from society. Although the Creature displays kindness, his isolation drives him to act inhumanely. The Creature, pushed away from his creator because he is an abomination, and indicates his isolation as the only one of his species. As the Creature gets more comfortable with the De Lacey’s, he approaches the old man as his children are gone but before he can explain himself, the children come home and see the Creature, “Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend her friend, rushed out of the cottage” (122). As regular humans, the De Lacey’s cannot accept the creature’s The Creature has scared the De Laceys when seeking for help, and they decide to leave their cottage. He reflects on this news in his hovel “in a state of utter and stupid despair He, mad with their decision, burns down their cottage. He knows that they left because of his appearance and most likely them knowing he has been watching them for time. After leaving his hovel at De Laceys place, he travels to Geneva and sees a boy outside his hiding place.The Creature decides that this boy isn't old enough to realize ugliness and picks him up. The boy struggles and exclaims that his ‘dad’, M. Frankenstein, will save him. The Creature is enraged at this child, “‘Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy - to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.’ The child [William] still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet” (131). After Victor and Elizabeth’s wedding, Victor tells Elizabeth to retire so he can go find the creature because he thinks the creature is after him. Soon after, Victor hears a shrill scream, and runs back to Elizabeth and finds “the murderous mark of the fiend’s grasp was on her [Elizabeth] neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips … A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with

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