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Isolation In Frankenstein

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Victor’s paltry parenting furthers his creation’s suffering since it is a minority. Also, Victor’s distant parenting instills wretchedness and helplessness in the alone creature. Consequently, because the majority (humans) ignores the minority (creature), this isolation is strengthened for the minority. Moreover, a female monster would aid the creature’s emotional state, as he states: “‘a [female] creature . . . shall content me’” (Shelley 145). Hence, the female monster grows the creature minority thereby resolving this majority-minority conflict as the larger a minority is the more power it has. This female monster (a potential sister) heals an incommodity of isolation: having no one to hang out with. Unfortunately, Dr. Frankenstein, a terrible
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