In Mary Shelly’s book Frankenstein, the two main characters, Victor Frankenstein, and the monster, are caught in conflict about the monster’s creation. The monster’s horrible appearance causes every person who interacted with him to run in fear or immediately attack him. The combination of his human nature, being made up of human parts and having human desires, with his almost human appearance prompts the monster’s alienation from humanity. The alienation that the monster experiences is not in reference to physical isolation but how the monster longs to be accepted and interacted with as a normal human, but his appearance that Frankenstein bestowed upon him is what makes these desires unattainable which causes his resentment towards Frankenstein. …show more content…
Frankenstein also experiences alienation but in a different form. His creation, the monster, wreaks havoc with violence and murder, but Frankenstein’s fear keeps him from telling anyone about his actions. His fear was attributed to the fact that he believes no one would take him seriously. Frankenstein’s inability to share this information with anyone was his own form of alienation. Frankenstein is constantly followed by the monster as he travels. The monster demands Frankenstein create a companion for him or he will continue to commit acts of violence. This pressure leads Frankenstein to begin building another creature in a lab isolated by the ocean. He eventually stops, deeming this creation to be too dangerous and that this creature could end up in the same state as his monster. Frankenstein states that he “had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it for ever with the bitterest remorse. I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike” indicating his trepidation towards possibly creating another creature who would be faced with a similar strife and might seek for the same revenge of their creation (chapter 20). After returning home and marrying Elizabeth, the monster attacks and kills her leaving Frankenstein alone. In addition, his family’s death at the hands of his creation further isolated him, leaving him alone. Now truly alone, the monster taking away every person he held dear, Frankenstein relinquishing himself to vengeance, the same fate as his