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Isolation Do you really know the depths of loneliness until you experience it? The book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has so many mixed emotions. Victor Frankenstein creates a creature through science and electricity. But the creature takes a dark turn and ends up being more of a monster and misunderstood.Isolation can cause many things, Victor was extremely alone and went crazy after the experiment. He’s gone through so much insanity in this book, it’s intriguing. Isolation is so harmful to a human being. It can make you go crazy, like seeing and hearing things. Victor states, “I felt my soul.dissolve itself in sorrow.” He went so crazy after the monster came to life that he felt as if he wasn't even in his body. He was fully alone and couldn’t
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