Topic > Examples of Loneliness in Frankenstein - 670

The creature desires a mate. His forced loneliness begins when Victor runs away from him and completely neglects his responsibilities towards him. Left alone, the creature wanders alone, facing the disapproval of every single person it encounters. People either run away from him or attack him. Having a human nature, the creature needs care and love, yet it does not receive any and not only that, it does not receive any type of affection, people show violent behavior towards it. After his last hope of telling his story to the blind farmer fails, he grows tired of his loneliness and of all humans. “There was none among the myriads of men in existence who would have pity or help me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? NO; from that moment I declared eternal war on the species and, above all, on the one who had formed me and sent me to this unbearable misery. All the crimes he commits after this are a reasonable reaction to all the hate he has received. Even when Victor promised to create him a bride, he destroys her, so the creature kills Elizabeth and Clerval, which shows how the more hatred he feels the more crimes he commits. Isolation created a monster from an original creature