Throughout Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, readers can understand the role that alienation and rejection plays within society. ... The main character, Victor Frankenstein, grew up in a very stable and privileged family. ... My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge" (Shelley, 29). ... Once commenced, it would quickly be achieved, and I might be restored to my family in peace and happiness" (Shelley,156). ... Within Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein," the pain of alienation a...

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The pursuit of knowledge leads to despair and corruption in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. ... Mary Shelley writes Victors story from Victor's point of view and of him telling another man, Walton, about his ghastly tale. ... Upon arriving in Geneva, he finds out that a nice girl, Justine Moritz, who was living with the Frankenstein's had been accused of the killing. ... Victor Frankenstein did not consider any negative consequences of his scientific search. ...

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In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, families are a very important part of the structure of the novel. ... Frankenstein's family in particular was missing a female role. ... Victor Frankenstein's family was normal to begin with. ... Yet they have a substitute as does the Frankenstein family has. ... The existence of the De Lace's in the novel proves that Mary Shelly wanted to include the importance of a family and how being close in a family can make everyone happy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School