Theme

Isolation and Alienation

Rejection and isolation warp both creator and creation, transforming love into hatred and innocence into violence.

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft · 1993

A scientist's obsessive pursuit of knowledge leads him to create a monstrous being, which he abandons, setting in motion a tragic cycle of revenge and destruction.