Loneliness In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Imagine a life where there was only one person that looked a certain way, oh wait; the world is already set up that way. But imagine a life where that one person looked gruesome with scars across his body and stitches sticking out. That is what it was like to be the creature in the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Living a life of isolation can cause a person to become lonely and depressed. If we live alone for the duration of our life we can become dangerous and un-socialized causing us to become feral. Therefore, if we go without social interaction then we will become lonely and depressed.
In terms of loneliness and depression, people try to search for a place that they fit in, in a place that makes them fell ‘at home’. In instances with
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As seen in the novel, when victor becomes saddened and grief-filled over creating the creature, he becomes more closed off and tells people the things that they want to hear not the things that he should say about himself. When creating this monster he wanted it to be the best project conceived with his bare hands, but as it turns out it was just the death of him. ‘I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide to him that event which was so often present to my recollection but which I feared the detail to another would impress more deeply.’ Chapter 6, Page 66. As the book reads all that Victor wanted to do was to avoid his friend, avoid the topic that no one can know about, no one can learn the thrilling truth from which Victor creates. The loneliness and anguish he must feel holding that secret in can cause him to become ill. “The combination of toxic effects can impair cognitive performance, compromise the immune system, and increase the risk for vascular, inflammatory, and heart disease.” Pg. 2 As the article states, some types of effects that come together in a combination can risk the health of a person, much like the effect that the body has after someone has scared them to death. If one were to imagine the possibilities that Victor went through when he was a young boy, his mother passing, his fascination with death, and life, and the constant reprimanding of his father to son about what books to read, which is nothing that pertains to