Frankenstein: Theme

"Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room..." pg. 56 I think a major theme of this novel is creation and then alienation. On page 56, Frankenstein creates the monster who is supposed to be beautiful and wonderful, and then he rejects him. Frankenstein cannot stand the sight of his own creation who he labored over for two years, and runs away. This causes the monster to be alienated and left alone in the world. As the novel progresses, the monster narrates his life so far and the reader feels the alienation the monster felt by Frankenstein and everyone he comes into contact with. He is first left alone to fend for himself in the forest without knowing how to build a fire or keep warm and when he first encounters another human, the old man shrieks and runs away. The monster did not understand why until he entered a small village and the people either fled or attacked him. Throughout this story, the monster did not feel welcome once so far. I think that this theme shows what alienation can do to inherently good people and the effect it can have on a person.