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  • Essay / Examples of Loneliness in Frankenstein - 670

    The creature longs for a companion. Her forced solitude begins when Victor runs away and completely neglects his responsibilities towards her. Left alone, the creature wanders alone, facing disapproval from every person it encounters. People either run away from him or attack him. By human nature, the creature needs care and love, but it does not receive it and not only does it not receive any kind of affection, people behave violently towards it. After his last hope of telling his story to the blind peasant ends in failure, he has had enough of his loneliness and of all humans. “Among the myriads of men that existed, not one would have taken pity on me or helped me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No; From that moment on, I declared an eternal war against the species, and especially against the one who had trained me and sent me to this unbearable misery. Any crimes he commits after that are a reasonable reaction to all the hate he received. Even when Victor promised to create him a wife, he destroys her, so the creature kills Elizabeth and Clerval, showing that the more hatred he receives, the more crimes he commits. Isolation created a monster from an original creature