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Isolation and Rejection

Both Victor and the creature are isolated by their obsessions and deformities respectively, demonstrating how exclusion from humanity breeds tragedy and how loneliness corrupts even the most gentle nature.

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft · 1993

A gifted young scientist creates a grotesque creature, abandons it to horror and rejection, and is pursued across the world by the vengeance of a being whose isolation he could have prevented.