Isolation Quotes In Frankenstein
According to the U.S. Department of Education, 160,000 students stay home from school per day out of fear of being bullied. Thus, 160,000 students per day not only fear and resent their peers, but they are also isolated from them, just as the monster was in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. While the students remaining at home instead of going to school believe they are protecting themselves from the bullies, just as the monster did when he remained in solitude to protect himself from attacks from the villagers, they are actually isolating themselves from everyone, the good and bad people, which completely cuts them off from the world and leads them to dwelling on their own thoughts and often, just as the monster did, planning revenge.
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Merely seeing the monster’s appearance, “some [villagers] attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons,” causing the monster to have “escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge,” isolating himself out of fear (Shelley, 128). Society’s rejection of the monster caused him to fear all people and thus isolate himself from every aspect of society out of fear he would be bullied again. Students often remove themselves from social situations in school, seen far too often when they sit alone in the corner at lunch, after they are ridiculed by their classmates. While many students struggle with knowing where they belong, “The only thing worse than not knowing where she belonged...was knowing where she didn’t,” because society and cliques shove people out of their circles, leaving them alone. The students that are excluded, one of the most common forms of bullying according to In Brief Social Bullying: Correlates, Consequences, and Prevention, know exactly where they do not belong, which makes it hard for the student to know where they do belong, leading them even further into their isolation. The negative interaction the monster has with society and a student has with bullies in school cause the victim to back off from society, leading to a self-induced isolation, which when combined with the exclusion-turned-isolation imposed by society, causes the victim to be completely alone and cut off from
Merely seeing the monster’s appearance, “some [villagers] attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons,” causing the monster to have “escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge,” isolating himself out of fear (Shelley, 128). Society’s rejection of the monster caused him to fear all people and thus isolate himself from every aspect of society out of fear he would be bullied again. Students often remove themselves from social situations in school, seen far too often when they sit alone in the corner at lunch, after they are ridiculed by their classmates. While many students struggle with knowing where they belong, “The only thing worse than not knowing where she belonged...was knowing where she didn’t,” because society and cliques shove people out of their circles, leaving them alone. The students that are excluded, one of the most common forms of bullying according to In Brief Social Bullying: Correlates, Consequences, and Prevention, know exactly where they do not belong, which makes it hard for the student to know where they do belong, leading them even further into their isolation. The negative interaction the monster has with society and a student has with bullies in school cause the victim to back off from society, leading to a self-induced isolation, which when combined with the exclusion-turned-isolation imposed by society, causes the victim to be completely alone and cut off from