Solitude's Importance

Throughout Shelley's Frankenstein, hardly any character, besides Clervel, was portrayed as a social and people-loving individual.  Victory, before the wrath of the creature came into being, he committed himself to a life of solitude while studying at college.  There, he came up with bizarre ideas and did evil work to the max.  Similarly, the creature, not by choice, was isolated from the rest of the world.  He wondered the wilderness as an outcast.  These isolated situations for the creature only brewed evil feelings of hatred and contempt for others.  Similarly, Victor became very sickly and ill while isolated.  He visited no one and was hardly social.  I believe Shelley is trying to create a negative connotation associated with loneliness.  Nearly every character that is alone has an ill-fated experience.  William was killed as we wandered the cemetery alone.  Also, Elizabeth was murdered as she slept in her room alone.  "My person had become emaciated with confinement"(Shelley, 32).