Self Isolation of Frankenstien

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It seems that it becomes a habit for Victor that whenever he faces any type of conflict he isolates himself from the world and his family. From this point on, every time Victor faces any conflict, he carries his feelings and chooses to physically and socially escape into rarely populated areas. First, He travels to the mountains in Chamonix seeking for peace and escaping from depression and guilt feeling because he cannot reveal his secret to any one that the real murderer of his brother is the monster he created. Victor meets the monster for the first time ,and the monster asks him to create another female creature to be its wife. Again, Victor travels to isolate himself into a remote and desolate island in England, Orkney Islands, to fulfill the wish of the first monster by creating the second female one. He is forced to separate himself again from entire world where he “immersed in solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged” (Shelley 157) while attempting to create the female monster but he changes his mind and prefers to destroy his creature as he feels that it represents another crime against mankind. Last place where he isolates himself is the barren, icy wilderness of the North Pole where he chases the monster in hope of getting revenge for the deaths of his family. Unfortunately, he finds himself totally alone in the world and also dies alone on an isolated ship which was stuck in between ice.

Victor Frankenstein chooses both physical and social isolation by himself because of his ambition and unlimited desire for seeking knowledge that may seriously threaten rather than serve. He chooses his ambition over the people around him. With repeated isolation, Victor becomes trapped to the idea of isolation. If he encountered with any problem, he prefers to escape to isolate himself in remote desolate places away from people instead of sharing ideas with others, asking for help or even warning others about the expected danger.

Reference sheet

Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein, SIGNET CLASSICS. New York, New York: Penguin Group(USA)Inc, 2013