uffer the horrible loneliness and isolation that she experienced herself as a child.
             When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, she deliberately made the monster suffer. Frankenstein is a story about a man who tries to impersonate G-d by creating life and instead unleashes a devilish monster. After Victor Frankenstein artificially breathed life into the monster and realizes the sheer gravity of his actions, he becomes extremely frightened and deserts it (Shelley, Frankenstein 43). Even though Victor was not the biological father of the monster, he was its only father figure. When Victor rejects the creature it hurts just the same as if Victor was the monsters natural parent. Due to this, the monster lives his life feeling the same loneliness and desertion that Shelley felt during her own childhood. The monster also shared the same desire as Shelley: the desire to be loved. It expresses this deep need for love when it says, "How can I move thee? Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassio!
             n? Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserable alone? You, my creator, abhor me" (Shelley, Frankenstein 84). In this quote, the monster questions Victor as to why he will not love him, when Victor was the one who created him in the first place. This desire and need for love was the reason that it became so important, to the monster, for Victor Frankenstein, to create something like him. The monster wanted something to love it, and in return to love it back. As a child, this is all that Mary Shelley yearned for, but did not receive, from her father and family.
             Mary Shelley continues the pattern of character isolation in her novel The Last Man, a story of the destruction of mankind by a single plague, which leaves one man, Lionel Verney, in solitude. In the novel, after everyone else is dead, Mary S...