Frankenstein Vs. Tessa

Frankenstein vs. Tessa

Isolation and desertion can take a great toll on people. Some people learn to accept it, while others feel they need to seek revenge on the people or person who put them in such a state. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, and in Murder, 1986, by P.D. James, the main characters both have offspring that they abandon in some form. They are left to fend for themselves, with no place in society to go as well. The monster from Frankenstein, and Tessa, from Murder, 1986, both were abandoned by the people who put them in the world, and were social outcasts, but while Tessa made the best of it, the monster sought out revenge.

Victor Frankenstein once got an idea he thought of as brilliant. He would construct a being made out of other human parts. After this being was created, he realized that it was a huge mistake and decided to completely forget about his new creation. He left the monster alone, and did not think twice about it, never giving it any kind of love or nurturing. The monster lives life with no self confidence, realizing he has unwanted. The monster realizes how he was a mistake, too, saying, “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on (Page 273, Shelley).” Like the monster, Tessa was brought into this world by a man with good intentions to care for his child. After Tessa got sick and became in Ipdic, her own father abandoned her and did not want to have anything to do with her. Both Tessa and the monster knew what it felt like to be abandoned by someone that is supposed to love you and care for you, but instead abandons you and leaves you just like society shuns them.

Society can be very cruel and unwelcoming to people that are different than the norm. Victor Frankenstein’s creation was so heinous looking, that it was virtually impossible for an outsider to even consider having a conversation with him. People would look at his rugged, and scary looking outside, and not give him the chance to show his caring, soft side that he had. This prevented him from having any one to talk to, except a blind man, and left him socially awkward. Like the monster, Tessa was shunned as a social outcast. Her, and all the other Ipdic’s had to live in a special place, follow special regulations, and were not aloud to live and talk with people not carrying the disease. Dolby sums out the Ipdic status by stating, “The stigmata of the Diseased: the registered number tattooed on the left forearm; the regulation Ipdic suit of yellow cotton in summer, blue serge in winter: the compulsory sterilization, since an