Frankenstein: Loneliness

Victor Frankenstein first experienced loneliness when he was a child. Always traveling with his parents isolated himself from other children, so when his mother brought him a sister he was overjoyed. Elizabeth was his savior from loneliness and his childhood companion. He says that, "Elizabeth.....the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures."

Though, as Victor grows older his isolation is not at the fault of his parents. It is his own doing. As he throws himself into constructing the Monster he isolates himself from the world. "I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection."

The Monster, on the other hand, was thrown into a life of loneliness with no options of escaping. Even though he tries to intermix with the rest of society his different appearance made him hated by all no matter what good he tried to do or how normal he attempted to be. "When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?"

Because of this loneliness he wants Victor to create someone or something equal to him. Equal in their appearance so he would not be completely alone and he could have someone to relate to. This creature could not be human. "I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create."

Science and Religion

Question: Do you think science and religion will ever see life in the same way? Why or why not? Defend your answer.


I believe it is highly unlikely that science and religion will ever meet eye to eye in terms of how they see life.

I don't think that they will ever mix because the way they both view life and creation is TOTALLY different. Completely different in a way that you can't mix the two even if you tried. Almost all religions believe that we are on earth today because of some higher deity. While on the other hand, science relies on the facts and there is no solid evidence that this "higher deity" exists.

The only point in time where science and religon can mix is if somewhere in the world someone finds proof that there is some higher being. Physical proof that can be recorded, analyzed, and published. If this were to happen then the two could mix because then religion would be factual. Now I don't have anything against religion. I'm a Catholic (a bad one at that) but if a religion were to be proven true then it would be easier to practice it.

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