Alienation in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

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Alienation is a central concept in the discussion of modern man, whether its alienation from God, self, instincts, or humanity. In what ways does Shelley consider both Victor and the Creature’s sense of self in relationship to family (community), to ambition (work), and a Creator (in this case a modern scientific creator)? What makes each of them alienated and why? What point might Shelley be making about alienation—that science alienates us that difference does? Develop your own argument to lead your discussion about the role of alienation in the novel. Since August, when I start studying at AUCA, I have read a lot of wonderful works, which help to understand human nature and our society. And Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is one of them. It’s clearly that Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Plato’s and Confucius’s works are very different in style and methods of telling, because they have been written in absolutely different times. But they also have similarities. First of all it’s philosophical works, they help us to start thinking. It is said that: “good question is half the answer” and this books ask us this good question. The main question, which Mary Shelley posed in her book, it’s alienation from your family, your friends and all society as whole. First of all lets discuss what is alienation and how we understand this term. Alienation, according to Oxford dictionary, is the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. We can see many examples of this term in books for example; alienation of Frankenstein’s Creature by the society. But there are a lot of examples of alienation in our usual life and history. Just think about the people, who are crippled- usually people don’t appreciate them and jeer at them. But not only physical ugliness makes people alienated. In the
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