“’And what was I?  Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant… hideously deformed and loathsome… I was not even of the same nature as man.  I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge…’”

     As the monster grew more intelligent and learned more things, he became more susceptible to sorrow and pain.  The worst of these being societal knowledge founded upon his dealings with people, such as when the monster saves a girl in the forest but a man shoots at him.  This results not only in the reader’s realization of a defamiliarization, but the monster’s own defamiliarization with society.  The monster did good deeds; he shoveled snow and saved a girl, yet people reacted negatively.  In turn, this produced enough abandonment and hatred for the monster to take vengeance in his own turn.
     Furthermore, there is an underlying religious commentary. The monster has no faith in Frankenstein, his creator, therefore how can he have any faith within himself or the society which batters him?  How can he know who he is with no sense of parent or place?  All of the guilt and isolation that the monster experiences are a result of society; society’s ills, even when personified as a monster, are still results of society.