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Introduction of the
creator (Monster), Frankenstein and Walton’s physical isolation research from a
mental and emotional breakdown
In
the novel, the potential chilling aspects of the isolation are recognized and
it was central motifs in the Gothic novel of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. The
author considered different conditions such as isolation physical settings,
monastic cloisters, dungeons, secret laboratories, and remote castles. The
novel also provides sustaining plots of feelings and emotions that marginalize
the interiority and provide extensive analysis of how human beings feel in
isolation. In the novel, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, different aspects of
isolation are considered with the cause and downfall in the protagonists in the
novel. The gothic nature of the novel result in blooming environment with
certain characteristics of an isolated person
The
aim of the present analysis is to summarize the concepts of novel and measure
how isolation affects normal human life. The summarized overview of the novel
shows how scientist Victor Frankenstein isolated himself from his friends and
family because of his obsession with creating the creature. Frankenstein
abandoned the creature that he hates. If the friends are lust during sailing expedition
it could cause distraction therefore, he decided to isolate himself since there
is no one up to the scale to qualify the level of a comrade.
Novel Summary
of The creator (Monster), Frankenstein and Walton’s physical isolation
research from a mental and emotional breakdown
In
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the effects of Victor Frankenstein’s isolation
cause a downfall on other protagonists in the novel. The creature, Victor
Frankenstein, and Robert Walton's physical isolation have a direct correlation
with the mental and emotional breakdowns. Gothic nature highlights the sublime
and grotesque features of nature which are picturesque, extraordinary, and may
symbolize an absence of faith, hope, or control. Frankenstein abandons the
creature which makes the creature hate him. Scientist Victor Frankenstein
isolates himself from his friends and family due to his obsession with creating
the creature. Walton losses his friend during a sailing expedition and isolates
himself since there is no one who qualifies for a comrade. Although the main
characters in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein suffer from isolation, the creature
is the most isolated character in the novel.
The
creature isolated himself because of different conditions such as physical
appearance and the inability of others to interact with human beings. In the
self isolation, he learned different skills and techniques particularly
survival skills and how to overcome the rejection. One of the major reason of
self isolation was the unfair treatment from the delacey family. Before
isolation, Dalacey family was continuously reminding him that he is not having
any family that enforced him to step back from the community and have some time
with himself alone. During the isolation period, he felt others as aliens
The
creature requested victor to provide him with a replicate and companion that
will kill his loneliness and he won’t be alone for the coming years. His wish
was to have a female companion with the same species but possibly with the
defects. After having all the story, Victor felt sorry for the creature tale of
the cottagers but the request was annoying for Victor. The latter part and
epilogue of his tale narrated his peaceful file among most of the cottagers.
In
response to him, he said that he could no longer suppress the rage that burned
within him. In reply, he mentioned refusal of the request so there will be no
torture and extorted by him. The detailed discussion disclosed more facts and
Victor replied that you may render me as a miserable man but if I create
another creature like yourself that will be joint wickedness and desolate the
world. The request and reply of creature and victor respectively hold the key
of upper hand for Victor as he refused the request of creature
Victor
after creating the creature went to isolation. Frankenstein made many attempts
to create a wife for the creature and then isolated himself. From the beginning
of novel and life of creature he always faced lack of love. Different parts of
the novel illustrate relation experiences and isolation. The characters of
Robert Walton, Victor and Frankenstein, and creation show certain aspects of
alienation in the novel
In
the whole world, creation was feeling lonely but tried many things to blend in
human culture but still, the other human beings were treating him like an
outcast. Creature stated his feelings in the novel as "I am an
unfortunate and deserted creature; I look around and I have no relation or
friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and
know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in
the world forever." (Shelley 127)”.
Frankenstein
was themed as having a love for family and could not return the love to a creature
that he was giving after his birth. He was facing hatred names like fiend,
monster, and daemon. The creature was facing hate from the first moment he
opened his eyes and he was always looking for love and companionship. In the
beginning, the novel reveals disgust of Frankenstein and how his physical
decline resulted in feelings for his creation. He lost appetite and was
becoming physically weak. The endless and worthless wandering resulted as
disturbance of feelings and mind and he was feeling emotions for the creature
he created
With
the passage of time, he was declining both emotionally and physically and
creature as becoming more expressive and eloquent. The more he was disturbed by
the creature the more he felt emotions for his creature. Victor was not having
empathy for his creation. The more Victor alienates himself from his friends
and family the more monster wants to love and acceptance from him. In the
mountains, creation approached Victor to ask for a female companion to have
friendship and love. At that moment the creature was extremely upset and
devasted. He stated his creator as "And what was I? Of my creation and
creator, I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no
friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously
deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man."
(Shelley, 115)
Victor
allowed himself to have some feelings for him and had compassion for the lonely
creature. He replied creature as, “compassioned him, and sometimes felt a wish
to console him" but with these sentiments, there are some other
overwhelming feelings of hate and revulsion. The creation used most of the
heart touching sentences upon which Victor gets upset and the convincing
statement was as below,
"No one can conceive
the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold
and wet, in the open air. But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather;
my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair." (Victor, 74)
He
promised to his creation that he will creature a new fellow creature for him
and felt that in this way he will justice both him and his wife. Here the theme
of hatred versus love becomes more obvious and he cried for his creation by the
following order,
1.
In order to
complete a new companion for creature
Frankenstein isolated himself as he promised his creation to provide him
with a wife.
2.
After collecting
body parts for his female monster, Victor changed his mind.
3.
The changed
relation between Victor and creation was dramatic. He said that I explained
myself and feelings in front of you but you proved yourself as a miserable
person and unworthy for my condescension.
4.
Here you need to
keep in mind that I have power and believe yourself as miserable but I can now
become wretched and the light of the day will be more hateful for you
The
monster becomes a hunter and threatens victor. Revenge, love again becomes
overwhelmed by hate in the creation and his desires are forbidden. Later,
Victor travelled to Europe and Frankenstein often dream about is the isolated
son [the creature]. The reason for his travel to arctic was the death of
Elizbeth and he regrets promising the creature to make a wife. Victor anger
seems as frustration about his life and he has no emotional contact with the
fellow humans. He lost himself in the scientific study and had very little
contact with his friends and family members. In the end, ironic reality is
described that victor needs the creature as he was his only relationship and
this was the only relation filled with emotions
The
novel Frankenstein documented the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton
and his sister. The failed writer, as well as captain both, were sailing
towards the Atlantic region to explore the North pole. Their mission was
expanded into scientific knowledge and to achieve fame. During their voyage,
the crew members and Walton spotted writer. They also encountered a gigantic
figure and after some hours they successfully rescued a nearly emaciated and
frozen man named Victor Frankenstein. After that, Franken started recovery from
exertion. The writer sees in Walton the same obsession that led to his
destruction.
Another
radical and less communicable character of the story is Robert Walton. The
character is the person with whom the story is spinning and he suffered from
personal isolation. Robert Walton wants to discover the northern route to the
Atlantic and isolated himself from the crew and all the crew was supposed to
assist him. Even in the isolation and cutting the world from the emotional
relation. Walter was blessed to have a sister, but still, he was looking for
someone to empathize him and he requested Victor to be a friend of him
In
the first meeting, Walton introduced Victor as his brother in from of all the
crew members. While having relations as a friend with Victor he was searching
for another version of himself to reduce the burden of isolation. Similar to
Victor, Robert Walton was also searching for greatness. His wish was to be
remembered for doing what a human being has never done. He imagined an
impossible to make it possible and tried for it. He stated that
"what
chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people, and I longed to join
them but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the
night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct
I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain
quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which
influenced their actions." (Shelley 105)
On
the contrary, Walton wanted to be first to discover the northern passage
through the Arctic and Atlantic. The mission similar to Victor was a fool's
mission but both of them were relying completely on each other. As a result of
his reckless ambition, Victor lost his friends and family and crew of Walton
was perilously close to the similar condition
In the journey, when Walton isolated himself
he stated "But I have one want which I have never yet been able to
satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe
evil. I have no friend, Margret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of
success, there will be none to participate in my joy; if I am assailed by
disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection."
(Shelley 18)
In
the beginning, Walton was as Frankenstein's double as he had similar
characteristics of him. Some of the important similarities, characteristics and
differences that distinguish them in the novel are listed below,
1.
These
characteristics include voyage, book reading and writing, travelling to North
pole, the excitement of the journey, and rejected a life that connects to
others.
2.
They both were
having an isolated life and were focused to achieve personal glory.
3.
Here the
difference in both of them was that Walton had already some experience of doing
unimaginable and he was the first person who listened to the story of creation.
4.
Besides the
Victor, Walton and his crew members were the first who became aware of the
story and had time with the creature.
5.
Walton was the first
person who wrote the story in some letters and then sent these letters to his
sister.
6.
In this way, his
sister was also the person on earth who listened to all the facts about the
lonely soul "creature"
In
the novel, Shelly created as suspense and intrigue about a stranger to whom
Victor met and then introduced Frankenstein immediately. Walton had a sudden
appearance as a demon. Walton as a stranger listed his creation as a unique
piece of creativity. Victor Frankenstein told the story to Walton and his
thoughts about impulsive experiments confess of creature to the creator, prove
of sympathetic and unsympathetic feelings, rejection and isolation. The novel
show need of relationship for the narratives of isolation
Conclusion of
The creator (Monster), Frankenstein and Walton’s physical isolation research
from a mental and emotional breakdown
In
the novel, the feelings of Frankenstein and Victor in the isolation are
similar. Both of them faced rejection from society and preferred to have time
alone in isolation. The characters pursuits of knowledge and discovered the
results in isolation. Frankenstein was not self-inflicted while Walton
experienced tone of sets. In the second section, the theme of alienation was
introduced by letters of Walton to his sister. After rejecting the society,
Frankenstein felt isolated and moved towards the Atlantic region. Walton in the
novel is the onlooker and performing his role as a witness of the supernatural
events and validates the story by his presence.
In
the novel, Shelly used Walton to produce suspense and intrigue about the
conditions of the novel. In conclusion, Walton had many roles to play and he
set the tone for all the story of the novel. The story becomes more interesting
by certain mystique around Frankstein as the Divine wanderer. Finally,
isolation creates severe hardship in the novel for the protagonists. Since
victor Frankenstein, Walton and Creature all were isolated this makes the whole
novel piled up with friendless feelings.
References of
the creator (Monster), Frankenstein and Walton’s physical isolation research
from a mental and emotional breakdown
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"Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley." Faber &
Faber, 2011.
Joshua, Essaka. "Mary Shelley:
'Frankenstein'." springer, 2007.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein - Third Edition. Broadview, 2012.
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