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."