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Good source which discusses Addie Bunds and the entire theme of isolation; as a mother back in the day, childbirth is really her only appreciable quality. Her entire life, Addie just wants some recognition and companionship; Anse certainly neglects to fulfill the part of a decent husband, so she is left alone to die. Good site for the theme of isolation/alienation, especially by her own children.

This source discusses the role of isolation and alienation in Vardaman's life; he is the innocent, clueless child who is unable to comprehend Addie's death, yet his father and brothers neglect him, and no one helps him understand. He wanders around confused and clueless

This source discusses the isolation Darl undergoes. He originally was one of the few rational thinkers of his family, however, he is rejected and despised as queer and different, and so alienated that he finally is driven to despair and starts losing his grasp. He's been rejected, even by his mother, to the point at which he even considers himself an onlooker and spectator,

This source discusses the alienation that Dewey Dell goes through as a result of her pregnancy. She loses her innate ability to connect with fellow humans as a result of her dreadful secret (just like Frankenstein) and becomes more and more self absorbed.

This source discusses Jewel's isolation from his family (except his mother). Sort of like Victor's monster with humanity, Jewel knows he does not belong to his family, and as a result fails to get along with most of them. He constantly bickers and curses at his brothers, to the point of hating them, as well as Anse. However, like the monster, the only person whose affection he desires are his creator's, Addie's, which he does absolutely anything to obtain. He wants acceptance and approval from the only person he cares about.

This source discusses the authorial purpose and Shelley's romantic  warning regarding the misuse and abuse of nature. Basically, she proves that humans ought to respect and connect with nature, rather than abusing it and twisting it to fit their own agendas.

This source discusses the role of nature in Frankenstein, and how it relates to the main characters as well as to TIntern Abbey. Good source that discusses the qualities of romanticism within the novel

Through the sequence of events Shelley constructs, she clearly represents her beliefs on parental responsibility and the side effects that can ensue when this necessity is denied. In having Victor play the role of the rejecting father, and treating his creation with repulsion and disgust, one can see how Shelley makes her reader aware of the moral evil involved in parental neglect. lots of other quotes and links to other sources inside here, pretty much touches on every moral outrage shelley brings up

Mary Shelley's perceptions of science and the dangerous power it potentially holds are intuitive. Modern day science deals daily with the exact issues of which Shelley was apparently keenly aware. She introduces ethics to the study of science, even gives science a conscious. As the monster acts on Frankenstein's conscious, some would say that Mary Shelley writes literature to act as science's conscious. It was as if she acknowledged that the future of science, if uncontrolled, could be disastrous. science and the negative effects. shelley is trying to point out the danger of community too controlled by science

Discusses the dual identity of Frankenstein and his monster as doppelgangers, as well as the tragic flaws in Frankenstein himself. It discusses Frankenstein's transformation from innocently curious student to crazy, egotistical scientist

this study proves that what happened to the monster is not uncommon"...their parents makes it possible to demonstrate there is a direct causal effect of childhood adversity on child conduct disorder over and above any indirect genetic correlation." the neglect the monster received by victor frankenstein directly affects why the monster heads down his path of destruction

There is ample evidence in the novel that the creature functions as the scientist's baser self. Frankenstein's epithets for him consistently connote evil: devil, fiend, daemon, horror, wretch, monster, monstrous image, vile insect, abhorred entity, detested form, hideous phantasm, odious companion, and demoniacal corpse. Neutral terms like creature and being are comparatively rare. Most important, there is Frankenstein's thinking of him as "my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me" (�7). And after each murder Frankenstein acknowledges his complicity: "I not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer"

This article gives historical background to the developments in the field of biology around the turn of the 18th century. The debate of what was human made life and what was just metals colliding had some people thinking it was almost possible to create life. This gives light to the fears shelley expresses in her novel over the advancements of science, and the argument that it has gone too far.

"Frankenstein is a novel that is deeply interested in a particular kind of social union, namely, the political community. Written in 1818 and in the moment between revolution and reform, Shelley's novel invokes contemporary discussions and theorizations of political community"

This source goes into the role the community plays in the novel. As the romantic value of human connection comes up, so does the community in a changing role. This is another one of Shelly's criticisms of her society.

"Condemned by nature's gods to limitless suffering, the aspiring hero learns his properly limited human place" because Victor tried to exceed the limits of what man should be able to do, he is forced to suffer continually throughout the novel, but if he was punished so heavily for creating life what should be gods punishment for those who alter life ?

"that indicated that the model for Victor Frankenstein was Dr. James Lind (1736-1812), Shelley's scientific mentor at Eton in 1809-10. Lind had become fascinated with the ability of electrical impulses to provoke muscle movement in the legs of dead frogs"

This source provides commentary on Shelly's inspiration for her character Dr. Frankenstein. It brings up Shelly's authorial purpose of writing the story as a warning of what science could become.

"At the heart of Frankenstein is the tension between the power science confers on individuals and the just restraints of community. Frankenstein, both creator and creature, stands not for science in general but for the acquisition of scientific power foolishly pursued without the wisdom of the world"

This source takes a detailed look at the ethics of science, and how the novel was written as a commentary on these ethics. This also follows the pattern of Shelly's romantic side, as she created Frankenstein to have a lack of personal connections, and for it to be his downfall.