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A romantic life full of pain and abandonment could only be given the monstrous form of "Frankenstein." Mary Shelley's life gave birth to an imaginary victim full of misery and loneliness and placed him as the protagonist of one of her most famous and greatest wor ....

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.... is the abandonment the monster feels throughout the story. He expresses it by telling Walton "...I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on." He claims he is the victim of his wrongdoing and affirms: "You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. But in detail which he gave you of them, he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions." He then goes on to express his feelings of guilt and hideousness because after all the beast is supersensitive. "But it is true that I am a wretch, ....