Rejection Of The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is abundant in its allusions to the idea of a Homunculus. The monster that Frankenstein creates is neither human nor quite animal, and often in the book is it referred to as a humanoid or a homunculus. Despite its obscure origins, the monster is still capable of experiencing human feelings and forming human relationships. The societal rejection that the monster experiences is by definition a relationship, for it involves two individuals actively doing something to affect the relationship. In this particular case however, the monster is actively pursuing individuals to befriend while they actively distance themselves from him. While it may not be a conventional relationship, it is still technically one. The villager’s rejection of the monster only goes on to how the human tendency to befriend that which is familiar. This is the case not just with a human figure or a humanoid figure, but also with castes and races. Often times in schools, students are seen with peers of their own ethnicities more frequently than with students of other races simply because humans are drawn towards what they see as familiar.

The monster views Frankenstein as a parent-figure and comes back to him again and again no matter how many times Victor mistreats him. Just like a child going to its parent for comfort, the monster seeks Victor out every time it realizes it has done something bad. And while within humans, the parent generally reciprocates the attachment, it is not necessary for the child to feel the way it does and so even if Victor doesn’t return the concern that the monster has for him, the monster continues to care about Victor. This is particularly evident when the monster holds Victor’s dead body and weeps in the end, despite the fact that it had spent the past couple of months evading Victor, who had decided to hunt it