Theme Of Appearances In Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has a micro theme of how appearances can affect the opinions of others. In today's world that theme seems to have escalated into a serious issue. In the novel it describes the consensus of the monster's horrendous look and how that has impacted him when it comes to love and affection, isolation, and relationships. In the novel Victor Frankstein performs an experiment creating a monster but because he's frightened of the look of the creature, Victor rejects his own creation.

Love and affection is an important need that everyone seeks. Towards the end of Mary Shellys novel, Frankenstein's Monster asks Victor to create a female mate so he can experience love like the cottagers expressed while the Monster stalked them.

Victor felt isolated in the beginning of his novel which led him to create his monster, which then he rejected. The Monster then had no one, just because he was just too horrifying to look at. The monster's isolation only made him crave attention more. Frankenstein's monster expresses how “Sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation. But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.”(Shelly 119) He felt alone, his creator left him and because of it he was mad, mad at victor. The monster writes how there are no women, or “eve”, to make him feel better and for that he is isolated, solely because of his looks. In real Life being isolated can make one go a little crazy, for example look at the lockdown, and everything that happened because people were isolated, like the blow up of tik tok. Despite the lockdown due to the pandemic one can feel isolated for looks as well. Although people are encouraged to share their differences, it doesn't always turn out