Conclusion

Victor Frankenstein's creature tells the saddening tale of a forgotten child. The creature's distinctive look causes him to receive mistreatment by society and to experience three stages of adverse reactions. The creature's three stages of abandonment, isolation, and alienation lead to damaging consequences to the creature himself and Victor Frankenstein. The effect of the rejection the creature feels is that his inadequacy causes him to desire Victor's attention, and the more Victor pushes the creature away, the more the creature comes around. The creature is isolated from society and has to fend for himself, thus leading him to fear human interaction. The creature's alienation stems from how abusive people are toward him; this leads him to exceed revenge.

The creature's behavior toward his treatment is significant to a defiant and mistreated person, because someone who is abandoned, isolated, or abandoned by not only society but by loved ones, the person acts out negatively in order to deal with the pain. Victor's creature changes his attitude from loving to a "metaphorical monster," showing the effect of neglectful parents. Often, parents push their beliefs and opinions onto their child/children, and the beliefs are usually cruel. The creature's mistreatment from Victor was what Victor felt inside himself, so rather than deal with the issues, he blamed and rejected the creature for his feelings of isolation and alienation. The creature later on realizes that he played the victim and projected his anger onto innocent people, killing those that had no involvement in Victor's creation. The novel portrays not only the consequences of Victor's terrible parenting and his standards of how a child should look and behave but the effect of irresponsibility and pure curiosity.