Frankenstein is a long Gothic novel written by British writer Mary Shelley in 1818. This work tells a series of tragic stories about Frankenstein, a biologist who is passionate about the origin of life, pieced together various parts of different corpses into a huge monster, and a series of tragic stories in which he abandoned the monster and made enemies with him. This work is considered to be the world’s first real science fiction novel with a strong romanticism. From a monster-centered perspective, this article analyzes his pursuit of identity and community with humans during his life as not accepted by human society. From constantly making efforts to integrate into human society, to committing a series of crimes on the opposite side of mankind, then choosing self-destruction, the tragic life of the scientific monster embodies the helplessness of being deprived of the living space of an innate outsider.

Yutong Chen. The Pursuit for Identity and Community of Monster in Frankenstein. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 4: 5-10. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.060402.

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