"There is a bit of the creature in all of us", says Christopher Schildt, and I agree with him wholeheartedly. Schildt believes that Mary Shelley was not writing so much about the SPECIFIC topics of Frankenstein, so much as the topics of "suffering and loss and pain". This is indeed a field of expertise for Mary Shelley. Having grown up in a life where she experienced the destruction of family, and the deaths of so many loved ones at such a young age, I agree with Schildt that she was definitely able to draw from personal life experiences (in more ways than one) while writing Frankenstein.
Much like Mary Shelley herself, Victor Frankenstein and his creature experience incredulous amounts of personal loss and grief throughout the story. Victor loses William, Justine, Elizabeth, Henry, etc. The creature had no one to begin with and no one to turn to on this planet that would associate with him or guide him in his early days. By my definition, Victor, the creature, and Mary Shelley were all ostracized in their lives, which leads me to believe that by no stretch of the imagination is Shelley's story more purely based on these horrible and trying emotions. I agree with Christoper Schildt that as we all know, "there is a bit of the creature in all of us".
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