Shelley presents family as an important means for love and purpose, but she also depicts the familial bond as complicated and perhaps impossible to achieve. The Frankenstein family is torn apart by revenge and ambition, and even the idyllic De Lacey family is marked by poverty, the absence of a mother, and a lack of compassion as they turn the creature away.
Throughout the novel, family is an entity fraught with the potential for loss, suffering, and hostility. Family may be the primary source for love, and a powerful source for purpose in life at odds with the ambition for scientific knowledge, but it is nevertheless presented as a dynamic in conflict. But these characters are markedly dissimilar to the creature, as they are both nurturing, matriarchal figures to fill in for the absence of mothers. Both the Frankenstein family and the De Lacey family take in outsiders (Elizabeth and Safie respectively) to love as their own. She turned it around, and changed it from what you would usually predict from a story of a. Even though the creature was supposed to appear to be a monster, she wrote the story so she could demonstrate that he was the victim in the story. A scene from the 1931 film adaptation of "Frankenstein.". Mary Shelley puts a lot of emotion and imagery in her writing.
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