Analysis Of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein - 1062 Words

Isabella Lichtenberg Ms. North English II Honors 10 December 2015 Title of Your Report A Hermit is simply a person to whom society has failed to adjust itself. (Will Cuppy). In the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley we follow the life of Victor Frankenstein in 18th century Germany. Shelley displays a recurring theme of isolation and how it drives once good people to do terrible things. If civilization does not adjust itself to a creature of any kind they will be forced into isolation and ultimately self destruction. Victor Frankenstein, the main character in the novel is a man of science, he dedicates everything he has into his work, but when he takes it too far he drives himself into the cold darkness of isolation. â€Å"For this I†¦show more content†¦My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world. (Shelly 132). When reading this quote we are shown that mankind has completely pushed away the creature, since the people who lived in the cottage rejected him he feels that he has lost all hope of connecting with mankind, once he learns that the people have completely left the village the creature goes into a state of anger which causes his dangerous escalate into a murderer. Evil thenceforth became my good.† (Shelly 210). When the creature says this quote in the end of the book he is acting as if he is lucifer. In paradise lost lucifer says farewell remorse all good to me is lost;/ evil, be thou my good. (Paradise lost IV.109-110). As the creatu re is reminiscing back on his life he realizes that he himself is more like lucifer than Adam, he is a fallen angel. And the creature continues to realize that even the most horrible people, including Lucifer the fallen angel, have people to be with and share thoughts. The creature has no one to love or care for him. Remembering all of the terrible things that he has done it causes the creature to think about his decisions and the decisions made by the society that ever so outwardly hated him. The creature is going to die with no one even though he tried to find companionship. Society did not accept the creature for who he is, therefor he was plunged into an icy