"I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects." (110)
A small theme that occurred in the novel was loneliness and the struggle for acceptance and happiness. Victor's monster was never accepted and struggled to try and live a happy life. The monster thought that if Victor could create an identical creature, only the female version, that he would finally achieve happiness. He felt that the only being that would accept him, would be one of his own kind. In the end, May Shelley had it so the monster never achieved happiness and was never truly accepted.
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occurred -- try out some other word choice here -- see how it sounds; May?; Shelley "had it"?
ReplyDeleteCheck your diction throughout the concordance -- the ideas are pretty strong, but the conversational language weakens some of your points
Why doesn't Shelley craft a story featuring the creature's achieving happiness?