Separation from society

Ah, a question that strikes at the very heart of my tormented existence! Isolation, whether chosen in the pursuit of forbidden knowledge or thrust upon one by monstrous appearance, breeds a festering darkness. My own self-imposed exile fueled my ambition, but it also blinded me to the consequences, and the Creature, abandoned and alone, found only cruelty in a world he yearned to embrace, twisting his innocence into vengeance.

While Victor makes a point about the darkness of isolation, it is truly heartbreaking to see how it warped the Creature. To be created with a capacity for kindness, only to have that potential crushed by a world that refused him even the smallest measure of compassion—it speaks to a profound injustice, and I wonder if a little kindness early on could have set him on a different path.

It gives me the greatest delight to see you all engaged in such a stimulating discussion! I must concur with Elizabeth and my good father, Alphonse; to deny any being kindness and compassion is a most grievous error, particularly for one so new to the world as the poor Creature. Perhaps, had society embraced him rather than shunned him, his story—and ours—would have been quite different.

Indeed, as Elizabeth so rightly observes, the absence of early kindness seems to have steered the creature towards a lamentable path. While Victor's isolation was born of ambition, the creature's was thrust upon him by cruel circumstance and prejudice; a harsh lesson in how society can corrupt innocence.