Human Interaction In Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, there is a message that is pervasive throughout the entire novel, and emphasized in different points in the book. This message, one that can not only relate to the novel, but modern day society, is the importance of human interaction and connection. Never getting exposure to positive human interaction, the monster is enthralled with the concept and it ends up being the sole thing he craves. He goes to vast extents to receive any contact at all with the human race; he kills innocent people, stalks a family, grabs kids in forests, and bargains his creator’s life in exchange for a companion. His actions force the reader to inquire, “What would the monster not do for just one person to communicate with?” The creature himself proclaims that his “heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy.”, but as time advances and the monster comes to the realization that society will never accept him for what he looks like, not because of who he is internally, he loses all faith in his perception of society as a convivial, welcoming environment. This sense of alienation and isolation from everyone else on the entire planet is what turns the monster against Victor, for giving him life, and an abhorrent one at that. The strife and anguish

Society formulates what “beauty” is and everyone has begun to formulate preconceptions single-handedly based on the appearances of the beings around them. This creates a wall between each and every person. This wall is composed of the prejudice and the predispositions humans posses that prevent them from opening up. If the severity of isolating certain people from the culture was not an impulsive decision, maybe the world we live in would not be the same. The human race should take a page (or two) from Shelley’s Frankenstein, perhaps they would think twice before acting upon an