The Role Of Loneliness In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Throughout the 19th century, a great deal of men emerged themselves in the sudy of nature and the discovery of unknown land. Focusing on transformation in scientific idea across a variety of subjects, those scientists raised the period of great advance in science, known as the Scientific Revolution. Even if much of scientific products expanded the knowledge and encouraged of different thinking, but some of scientific products were too power to destroy the nature resulting in posing a threat the community. In the novel Frankenstein Mary Shelley demonstrated that the creature transformed himself from longing for love to seeking revenge on humanity as whole. Humanity, knowledge and loneliness all lead to his corruption and tragedy through his emotional distortion. Rejection by humanity causes the creature to suffer from the mental and physical torture while the creature hopes to get acceptance from the …show more content…

It shows that his desire for being love and sympathtic character. From Victor’s perspective, he eyewitness how painful and despondent the creature is after he destorys the female creature, “the wretch saw me destory the creature on those whose future existence he depended for happiness and with a howl of devilish depair and revenge withdrew”. Knowing that Elizabeth can alleviate Victor’s mood and Safie can provide Felix with a degree of joy, the creature seek a female creature for his own happiness. The role of female character can provide comfort and acceptance to those who suffered. However, the creature eventually transfers his desire to have famale companion to seek revenge toward the female character. The creature believes that a female creature will be his last chance to satisfy his happiness. Since the creature suffers from remorse for a quite long time, the creature felt compelled to harm others and could not aviod to choose to