You have an interesting thesis that compares and contrasts the role of human fellowship in the lives of Victor Frankenstein and the creature. For the final part of your essay, you may want to consider what it means that both Victor Frankenstein and the creature die friendless and alone at the end of the novel.
By the end of the novel, the creature has killed Henry, Frankenstein's friend, and Elizabeth, Frankenstein's bride. Frankenstein, who flees to the Arctic, is as alone and friendless as the creature. After Frankenstein's death, the creature says the following:
Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find . . . I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory.
The creature has abandoned all hope for sympathy and companionship, and Frankenstein lacks these comforts by the end of his life as well. What does it mean that both Frankenstein, who had an abundance of friends when he was younger, and the creature, who lacked friends, both die alone while suffering? Could it mean that by being so filled with hubris, Frankenstein has caused himself to suffer the same fate as his creature? Do you think that it is fitting that at the end of Frankenstein's life he suffers the same loneliness of which his creature complained and that Frankenstein was unwilling to cure? In other words, did Frankenstein receive his just desserts? These are some questions you may want to ponder as you write the end of your essay.
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