As a society, we can see citizens advocating for solutions to various problems that can stem from fixing school systems, changing the government, health insurance, and more. However, something like social isolation can be overlooked in these seemingly higher order tasks. Writers such as Mary Shelley in “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus” are able to attack this idea using many different characters and the situations she inserts her characters into, relating it to our very own human experience. Shelley utilizes very human emotions in her writing to create scenarios where the reader can find some sort of relation to despite the obscurity of the story as a whole as Victor brings back the Monster to life from other deceased corpses. Examining …show more content…
Although Victor had accomplished what he sought out to do, it ultimately ended in the destruction of his entire life and with nowhere to turn, the only thing left to console him was his imagination. Through these traumatic events that happened to Victor when he was younger, he results in coping with his own solitude when he ages which allows himself peace in some way, but will harm himself more for an unhealthy way of healing. From an adverse perspective on the Monster, the criticism he received as a whole from society for something that was not his fault is immense which results in his hate and disconnect with society. The Monster is able to explain his thoughts so well that the reader can experience what is happening vicariously through his words when he professes “But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quit the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel” (Shelley