The Themes Of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is extremely popular because it is considered one of the first science fiction and horror novels and a classic. Many themes from the novel can still apply to today's society such as personal relationships, like when Victor isolated himself from family and a social life for his studies. Victor becomes so obsessed with science he abandons everything including his own health, “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime. Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I that I had become”(Shelley 42). Especially in today's society, people abandon important relationships, don't have priorities straight, and isolate themselves from the world, like Victor does throughout the whole novel.
I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body...I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and the breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room” (Shelley