The Monster's Stigma

When creature in Frankenstein comes to life, he thinks that he is normal - just like everybody else. Then, he is rejected by his creator so he ventures out into society. Everybody is scared of him, but he doesn't know why. When he starts reading, he reads about monsters. He identifies with them, so he starts to act like them, even though he knows that's not what society expects from him. The literature he reads and the actions of others combined are what turns the creature into a monster.

I think that reading and watching movies does make people feel excluded in some ways. For example, when you read a romance novel or watch a chick flick, you realize that the things in those stories aren't going to happen to you. This makes you feel excluded. Or if you read a book about something you have always wanted to do you'll feel excluded from that.

In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip first achieves consciousness of himself as a self when he is talking to the poor man in the graveyard. He steals from his sister and her husband to feed the homeless man. He feels awful about it because society tells him not to steal - that it's immoral and wrong. This is similar to the monster's situation in Frankenstein because they go against the expectations of society.