In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the theme of rejection and alienation shows how cruel treatment can make anyone a monster. Through the creature's journey from an infantile being to a lonely, suffering being, Shelley explores the feelings that accompany having a parental figure and society reject the creature. the novel shows how when someone is rejected and alienated by society, they come to hate and curse it. Shelley was able to create a deep and real character using her past experiences with loss and loneliness. To begin with, the creature began mentally as a child. Shelley explored the idea of the mind beginning as a tabula rasa or “blank slate.” This means that the creature would have started out neither good nor evil, but it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my pains or shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam's plea to his creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him. (Shelley, Although Victor created the creature physically, society is what turned him into a monster. He does not intend to kill Victor in revenge for abandoning him in a world that hates him. Instead, he hopes that after his story Victor will feel responsible and guilty enough to make him a female so that he has someone who understands him and can be happy, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein shows how rejection and alienation poison a person's mind and can turn him into a monster passes from one. state of childhood innocence to a very adult state of experience over the course of the events of the novel Shelley was able to create a powerful character in the monster because she used some of his past negative events to shape him understanding and compassion in society, so he comes to. hate and curse
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