Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein brings the serious subject of social prejudice into the spotlight. Frankenstein shows a great example of how continued rejection from family or peers can cause a person to go from a virtuous being to a murderer or become suicidal. Today, like Frankenstein, people are still judged primarily on their physical appearance and not on their kindness. Babies have been abandoned due to physical defects; children and adults are teased, bullied, ridiculed, and ignored because of their clothes, hair, face, body, etc. This critical human behavior has serious consequences, not only for the person being judged, but often for those who do it. judge. Often, victims of continued ridicule end up retaliating with violent behavior. Rejection is one of the problems associated with social prejudice in Shelly's novel. Frankenstein's monster is abandoned because of its hideous features. Victor, who was its creator, cannot contemplate what he brought to life. Victor explains: “I saw the wretch, the wretched monster that I had created. He raised the bed curtain; and his eyes, if you could call them eyes, were fixed on me. His jaws opened and he muttered inarticulate sounds, while a smile creased his cheeks. He could have spoken, but I didn't hear; a hand was outstretched, apparently to hold me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs” (Shelly chapter 5 p 43). The monster responds to Victor like a child who looks to his father for reassurance and acceptance. Although the monster was not a child in its physical appearance, its emotional state was that of a young child. Since the 1890s, researchers have conducted studies called Parental Acceptances-Rejections middle of paper ......society as a whole. When a person is mocked or ostracized, the pain they feel is not only emotional but also physical. The notion of “sticks and stones” has been proven false. Sian Beilock, Ph.D. discussed research that shows that "intense social rejection really does share a lot in common with physical pain." People who are abandoned, teased, rejected, taunted, or ridiculed by their peers may first seek to do good things, as Frankenstein's monster attempted. If this does not result in acceptance, these same seemingly weak people could attack with devastating consequences. This leaves us wondering: “How could we have stopped the tragedy”? As Shelly's novel Frankenstein demonstrates, if society treats a person as an outcast simply because of their physical appearance, the end results can be catastrophic for victims and perpetrators alike...