Both ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Of mice and men’ are concerned with the themes of loneliness and dependency Essay

Compargon the way Mary Shelly and John Steinbeck write about these human conditions.In this essay I will discuss and compare the similar themes of loneliness, isolation and dependency in of mice and custody and Frankenstein.Victor Frankenstein is the main protagonist character in the book Frankenstein. He is a scientist who challenges common science. He lives in a big family mansion in Geneva with all of his family. At first Frankensteins relationship with his family and friends is really close. When he moves to the university in Igolstadt he writes frequent letters to his family and Elizabeth.Frankenstein has an obsession with a desire to create life. He gets this uncontroll subject desire from the ominous loss of his mother during the birth of his brother William. Frankenstein studied professor Waldmans research on darker science and when the professor died it gave him the final push towards creating life. Frankenstein thought he owed it to the professor to finish his research. T he research was measure consuming this made his letters less frequent and shorter. Elizabeth felt isolated because of this and this made Frankenstein nongregarious as nearly. maestro Walton is the first narrator of the book. We learn the story of Frankensteins nut through his letters to his sister. He is the captain of a ship on an expedition to the northeast Pole. His ambition is to reach the North Pole where no man has been before. He doesnt have a good relationship with his wingow crewmates because he is self-serving and reckless you know because in the book the crew threaten to mutiny if he doesnt let them go back home. Frankenstein and captain Walton have a link between them they both have this deep imbedded urge to follow their ambitions without care of how reckless they are. I think this is the reason they connect so well and become close friends.George is a young, migrant ranch worker who is reasonably small and has well-defined features. He is like a father to his me ntally incapacitate friend. He shares the dream of owning his own ranch with Lennie. George is a quite a quite lonely man because he hasnt got a real future, rouset have any long term relationship because Lennie takes up mostly all his time. In the book George explain how he would be able to live easily without Lennie God amighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could get a job an work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the tattle come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want.Lennie is a mentally challenged ranch worker. He is a big strong man who is impetuous. Lennie and George are a magnet, Lennie is the north pole and George is the south pole. They are completely reverse gear however they still attract each other and stay together. Lennie is childish and maybe mentally handicapped however he can still operate George. You see this in this quote just after George was complaining about Lennie stopping him doing what he wanted to do with his life. Lennie say if you sham want me I can go off in the hills an find a cave. I can go any time.And George relied by saying No-look I was jus foolin, Lennie. cause I want you to stay with me.. Lennie likes to pet soft things he gets in trouble because of this. Lennie is actually lonely because he cant do what the other men do due to him being mentally challenged and irrational. You can see he is lonely from what he does in this quote Everbody went into town, he tell Slim an George an everbody. George say I gotta stay hear an not get in no trouble. I see your light.. This shows that he is lonely and is inquisitive for a friend because he has been left out. This also illustrates that Lennie is an outcast.Crooks is a black busted back stable buck. He is called crooks due to having a crooked toughie where a horse kicked him. Crooks is lonely and isolated from the rest of the workers, he has to sleep in his own place in the stables because he is black and in the ti me of the book there was a lot of racism and it was accepted that blacks were inferior to the whites. He is bitter and angry due to the way he is treated, its a defence mechanism to try and stop him from getting hurt however when Lennie is left alone and he goes in to Crooks room he doesnt label him by his ethnicity still Crooks acts bitter because he doesnt trust that a white man can be his friend this parallels with Frankenstein. In Frankenstein the titan thinks a kid wouldnt judge him however the kid does. Even though there are differences the theme of judgement are in both texts.The monster in Frankenstein is a man made from the severed body parts from dead criminals that Frankenstein put together and brought it to life. He has overwhelming strength and is impetuous. The monster is lonely because he is incredible hideous, repulsive and horrifying which cause people to panic and run away from him. The monster just wants to be loved and have a friend he can talk to he doesnt ca re who it is. In the book he lived in the woods for a while and detect a family called the De Lacys who where struggling to survive during the winter. He became friends with them and helped the by doing hard manual work. Over time the monster saw what the de Lacys had and he fell in love with one of the de Lacys. When he told her his intensions she panic and gave him a look of disgust. Then the monster was mad with anger so he burnt them alive.The monster and Lennie a really quite similar they both are strong, impetuous and similar in appearance. The monster and Lennie have similar dependencies on their creator or carer. The monster is dependant on Frankenstein to build him a companion and eventually to be a father. Lennie is dependant on George to look after him and stop him getting in trouble.Curleys wife is very lonely, bored and frustrated. She lives on a ranch where there no other women and during the day all the men go to work so she is left on her own being bored because she has no one to talk to. This is shown in this quote Think I dont like to talk to somebody ever once in a while? Think I like to stick in that nursing home alla time?. She is also frustrated that her life turned out this way. She married a violent man who she didnt love. She imagined her life to be full of glamour, fame and stardom. In the book Lennie and Curleys are in the barn. Curleys wife is flirting with Lennie. Lennie starts stroking her hair softly then he got harder and harder until Curleys wife screams. Lennie panics, covers her mouth and shakes until she was dead. A similar thing happens in the book Frankenstein, the monster tries to be friends with William however William panics and the monster accidentally kills him.The structure and style of both texts are very different. Mary shelly told the story of Frankenstein through letters that captain Walton wrote to his sister and at the end of the book we hear the monsters side to the story. The style of Frankenstein is chival ric horror. It is dark, gory and intense. Steinbecks is written in a more traditional structure in the third person. It is an emotional drama. Steinbeck uses description of scenery and animals to build characters however Mary shelly focuses on developing characters.In conclusion I believe that both books illustrate loneliness and dependency very well however I prefer the story of Frankenstein more than Of mice and men because Frankenstein is more surreal and is gory which I like. Of mice and men is realistic and quite boring. I think the fact that they are very different types of books that were written at very different times and still have the same themes is quite interesting.