Societal Isolation In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '

Society Made Monsters
Societal isolation is not talked about as much as it should, it creeps into a person’s mind and fills them with apathy towards their fellow man. No quote better emulates this than in Chapter Seventeen of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all of mankind?” The Creature is beseeching Victor Frankenstein to end his loneliness by providing him with a woman like him. Another person to be hated by the rest of the world and to have nowhere else to turn to but the Creature. But he is so stunted and isolated by others, that he doesn’t care how this prospective person would feel about this. Perhaps Mary Shelley added this whole sequence to illuminate how societal abandonment

He in many ways was much like his creator, extremely intelligent and curious of the world around him, much like Victor when he was young. He taught himself to read because he wanted to understand the world and he learned to communicate to vocalize his loneliness to people and maybe gain acceptance. And will rejection after rejection, he becomes more and more apathetic toward others. When the Creature killed Victor’s younger brother he tries to deflect onto Victor that it is his fault William and Justine are dead because he abandoned the Creature and wishes to destroy him. “You accuse me of murder; yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man.”(pg.88) The Creature murdered a child and framed an innocent woman, leading to her being executed and he reasons it to be nothing but an act of vengeance for how Victor treated him. William didn’t even know what Victor was doing and Justine certainly didn’t either and they died for the sole reason of being related to Victor. The Creature has placed himself in perpetual victimhood and entitlement because of how badly he was treated by others. He doesn’t care about the horrible actions he does because he is only doing it in retaliation, which would make him no better than the man he so desperately despises. Society and Victor turned him into a monster and how he reacts is just not

She wrote that her inspiration for the story was a conversation she had had when she was little with another little black girl who had a fascination with blue eyes, much like her character Pecola Breedlove. Morrison is known for her stories that circle around how racism and misogyny affect black women. For The Bluest Eye, a little girl named Pecola Breedlove goes insane from the inhumane treatment she faces as an eleven-year-old african american girl in the Great Depression. There are many points in the book where she is dehumanized and treated less than dirt, even by her own parents. Her father in a bid to feel in control despite how much white men have controlled him, rapes his daughter and she becomes pregnant with his child. She miscarries and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Pecola retreats into a fantasy world where she is a bird and can fly away from all the pain she has endured, and she is unable to escape the delusion. Another little girl named Claudia blames herself and her sister’s fear of interacting with Pecola as the reason for Pecola’s mental break, but it wasn’t them; it was the adults that surrounded