Alienation and the Outcast

From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Every major figure (Walton, Victor, the Creature) suffers profound isolation; the Creature's exclusion from human society constitutes the novel's most sustained meditation on alienation.
Chapter 15

The Creature rejected by the De Lacey family: 'I, like the arch fiend, bore a hell within me.'

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Chapter 13

The Creature laments his unique loneliness: 'But where were my friends and relations?... I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome.'

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