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Loneliness In Frankenstein

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Victor Frankenstein fabricates a creature into the world out of the ambition to create a new species that will serve the purpose of being a new species. Victor immediately shuns his piece and flees after he had realized what he has created. “I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created , I rushed out if the room…”(Shelley 45). Placing the creature in a position to fend for itself right after birth knowing absolutely nothing. The trouble bears down a weight on the creature shoulders. The creature began to have sparks of thoughts that questioned his existence . "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not …show more content…

A deformed piece flesh looked down upon mankind, truly a creature. The creature reflection startles him to the reality that he and only he shares this reflection. “At first started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was, in reality, the monster that I am…”(88). Despite the informality of his features. He attempts to fill the void of loneliness that his creator bestowed upon him: he tries to establish a relationship. A relationship that would end his solitude. He comes across a family, which he becomes attached to: a blind old man named De Lacey, Felix, Safie, and Agatha. But due to his deformed figure, all who can see apply a preconceived notion of him. Society only sees a monstrous and do not allow him to express himself. For

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