Alienation

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Alienation

• An insight into the use of Alienation within
  Frankenstein

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Alienation- Intro

• Alienation The dictionary defines this word as
• to make somebody feel that he or she does
  not belong or share in something
• Alienation is a technique used throughout
  Frankenstein on many of the characters. It is
  more clear with some than others.
• We already of the top of our heads start to make
  brief links between the alienation featured in
  Frankenstein and to other Gothic texts, such as
  Jane Eyre and Edgar Allen Poes poem The
  Raver

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Victor

• Shelley alienates Victor the most in my opinion
  and in several different ways.
• Firstly he alienates himself in the name of
  science, whilst creating the monster he forms a
  barrier between him and society, so involved in
  his number one passion. I grew alarmed at the
  wreck I perceived I had become page 57
• Secondly he alienates himself again from society
  later on in the novel when focusing his life on
  chasing the monster, I pursued him, and for many
  months this had been my task page 206
• Thirdly he alienates himself from his love life,
  focusing all his time on the monster,
  questionably his true love in life. Intimacy is
  not part of Victors love for Elizabeth and this
  perhaps leads to a breakdown of his relationship
  with Elizabeth, ultimately leading to her tragic
  death, and Victors self-involved nature playing a
  part in the comeuppance. As I heard it the whole
  truth rushed to my mind page 199

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The Monster

• The monster is alienated in a different way to
  the
• other characters. He does not choose to be
  alienated, but society turns against him because
  he is so hideous. The whole village was roused
  some fled, some attacked me page 108-109
• He is not socialised properly due to Alienation
  from his creator and therefore does not learn the
  values and morals of society leading to murder.
  A grin was on the face of the monster, he seemed
  to jeer page 200

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Walton and Elizabeth

• Elizabeth is ultimately a passive female, with no
  particular voice or opinion expressed, just as
  many women of the times would have done, however
  this passive role alienates her from Victor and
  her love life. little happiness remains for us
  on earth page 193
• Walton however chooses to alienate himself from
  society all in the name of discovery, which is a
  running theme throughout the novel, Victors main
  aim is discovery. If I succeed, many months,
  perhaps years will pass before you and I may
  meet. page 18

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Links

• Jane Eyre is linked to the alienation of
  Elizabeth in some ways being a passive female.
  but on the other hand she is linked to the
  monster, being and outcast within an upper-class
  society, ruled by beauty and wealth. The
  monsters alienation also links to Bertha Mason,
  and her complete alienation, to the point where
  she is locked in the attic!
• This also links so Jekyll and Hyde, where Jekyll
  alienates himself further and further from
  society by creating the monster that is Hyde,
  just like Victor.
• The portrait of Dorian Gray is similar, because
  the deterioration of the picture and ultimately
  Dorian, ultimately driving him insane and
  alienating himself from society is similar to the
  deterioration of Victors sanity, and he slowly
  ends up being so caught up in finding the
  monster, that when Walton and him are united it
  is his only human encounter in a long while, and
  then he dies.