The Importance Of Friendship In Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

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According to Mary Shelley's romantic novel Frankenstein the experiences of the characters show that human connections play a huge role in life and are vital to living joyful fulfilled lives. Having a friend is beneficial to share emotions with, a friend is helpful, and helps reevaluate decisions and lovely family members that love their child wholeheartedly is essential to a healthy life

Shelley initially demonstrates that having a friend is beneficial to share feelings with. For example Walton, the explorer trying to find the elixir of life, “desire[s] the company of a man who could sympathize with, [him], whose eyes would reply to [his]”(4) Walton wants a friend to feel what he feels and someone to go on his journey with. Having a friend …show more content…

Walton deeply wanted someone to “approve or amend [his] plans”(5). If there is a person there to talk to him, they could help talk him out of and stop him from doing terrible things. When Henry Clerval, Victor's childhood friend, came to visit he instantly made Victor feel better. But “the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all agony of [his] nervous symptoms. Henry saw this and had removed all [his] apparatus from [his] view”(54). When Victor would otherwise make a terrible decision and start up again studying what made him miserable and his life worse, Henry helped him out and removed all the items that made him indignant from his view. Next Henry assisted Victor in another situation by observing when Victor was getting anxious and “clerval whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the situation of others, declined the subject”(54). Victor, in conversation would start to shift to science and topics that made him despondent so Henry would realize what is happening and knows how that subject makes him feel so he would quickly change the topic and protect Victor from ever having to feel what he felt before Henry came. An associate is extremely important to have because it allows a protector to revise

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