Why We Can’t Live Alone Considering Existence-Frankenstein
...all. How the monster can learn to manage language is obviously impressive, which shows his possession of intelligence and great potentials of learning. So what? Actually that means he tries to figure out who he is, and whether there is anyone of his kind. Try to remember when you had the feeling that you were left alone and helpless in fitting in any kind of group if you do have such kind of experience. Nobody cares about you, what you say or what you do doesn’t concern anyone. A voice inside you says,” Where do I belong…” It is like you do not even exist. We have the need to be recognized by those of our kind. It is even worse in the monster’s situation. The only thing people care about him is how to get rid of him, make him disappeared in this world. However, some of us do try to escape this fate, yet few succeeds, which is due to other things like feelings, love, or obsessions that intelligence gives us, and thus makes our seek for companions different from the instinct-driven gatherings of animals. We have so much that we are unwilling to leave behind, our dreams, our realization of our values, and our desire for love, our feeling of responsibility to support the family, and so forth. All of the above we want to achieve and then recognized by others and we can easily find some counterpoints in the life of Frankenstein’s. And all of these the monster can never get from human society so he finally begs Frankenstein to make him a companion. Actually maybe we can say that we are always searching for someone even among the species, among those of our kind. Someone with whom we share common interests, simil...