Themes | Frankenstein | Joseph Huynh # 2

Themes—

Many themes are expressed throughout Frankenstein. As we read, the theme of rejection appears the most often. The monster is a hideous creature and on top of that, it is 8 feet tall and very scary looking. It does not surprise me that people are afraid of the monster but it saddens me that the monster is actually a very nice creature that happens to be misunderstood. The monster wonders through many places but is shunned and driven out every time he is seen in public. The monster finds himself in a cottage that belong to the Delacy Family. There is a crack in the cottage that the monster looks through and observes the everyday lives of the Delacy Family. He finds that they are a loving family of two grown siblings looking after their blind father. The monster finds love and acceptance in what he witnesses for the following months he stayed at the cottage. The monster finds books in the forest and documents by Frankenstein, his creator, and becomes enraged by the abandonment of his “father.” Rejection, in my opinion is the theme that the novel revolves around the entire time. The second biggest theme would have to be misunderstanding. The monster is a eight foot newborn and needs to learn about life so he was not evil or did malicious things in the early stage of his life. Frankenstein is frightened by is creation and leaves it. The abominable monster turns evil because he believes he was abandoned by his own creator but it does not know that it was he appearance that made him secluded from society. Frankenstein hates what the monster had done to his life—killing his family. The monster wanted revenge that is the product of misunderstanding.