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Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a complex novel that was written during the age of Romanticism. It contains many typical themes of a common Romantic novel such as dark laboratories, the moon, and a monster. However, Frankenstein is a unique novel. Many lessons are embedded in this novel, including how society acts toward the different. The creature falls victim to a system commonly used to characterize a person by only his or her outer appearance. Whether people like it or not, society always summarizes a person's characteristics by his or her physical appearance. Society has an unbreakable code that individuals must follow to be accepted. Those who do not follow the “standard” are hated by the crowd and banned for being different. When the creature ventures into a town, children shriek and women faint. From that moment on, he realizes that people do not like his appearance and hate him because of it. If villagers do not run away at the sight of him, they might enjoy his personality.
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