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Isolation In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

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In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus, Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s creation experiences alienation, and enrichment while being isolated from his very own creator and the society in which he resides. After two long and dreary year’s Frankenstein was finally able to bring his dream to life, but when his creation awoke “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” Mary Shelly does this to produce a rift and a strong sense of alienation between Victor and his own creation, his own son so to say. After isolation from its creator, the creation found its way to the Cottager’s where he is blessed with the gift of knowledge “they [books] produced in on me an infinity of new images and feelings
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