Isolation Theme In Frankenstein

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Sarah Crow English Third Period 3/7/2011 The Theme of Isolation Why do humans isolate themselves from others? It's true that some people are more introverted than others, but every human needs interactions with people to fulfill needs. When is isolation a good thing and when is it unhealthy? Perhaps individually people are the ones who can accurately assess when isolation feeds us and when it is an escape from life.Isolation can be good and bad. Victor Frankenstein was escaping life. He lacked "rest and health"(56) and had "worked hard for nearly two years"(56) while he placed himself in confinement, playing god, working to create a creature. Through his entire life, Victor brought solitary confinement upon himself. He continued to…show more content…
While at a single-sex grammar school, she meets her first girlfriend, Sara. When Valerie arrives home, she tells her parents, who disown her quickly; Valerie undergoes exile from her family, it starts off simple. Her mother tells her that Valerie has broken her heart and she can no longer speak to her. Her father never gives her another word after she comes out to them.She lives in solitude for a week, while her parents ignore her and finally send her away. She she moves to London to study drama. Valerie faces a much smaller scale isolation then that of Victor or his creature, however it still takes its toll on her physically and…show more content…
He scared everyone he came into contact with and was labeled as the "breathless horror"(56) which made it impossible for him to socialize with any humans.Unlike Victor who chose to be alone. Valerie, in the other novel was isolated by ones who at one point, did love her. The creature was abandoned from the start, he was rejected and hated from the moment he opened his eyes. Complete isolation for Valerie doesn't happen until much later in her story. The horrible image of the creature's outward appearance physically isolated him from society. While society didn't isolate Valerie at first, her parents did. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, there was only one person who accepted the creature and that was a blind man who tried to comfort him, sadly the family of the man walked in on their conversation and ran the creature out. It was at that point the creature knew he'd never be accepted into society. With this realization of loneliness he found himself starved for affection. He knew he couldn't gain that, so any sort of attention would have to do. He chose to kill Victor's loved ones. V-for Vendetta has murders in isolation as well,Valerie meets a woman named Ruth, and the two become lovers. However, over the three years of their relationship, there is a situation between the United States and the Soviet Union that spirals out of control and, after the resulting war, chaos erupts in Britain,
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