Frankenstein's monster can be seen as a representation for the lower class from examples throughout the book. Starting with his creation, he is cast away from his creator very soon after his creation and is then homeless and walking around freezing. Another good example is that he does not have anything to his name, and the first thing he finds for himself is a cloak hanging from a tree, I believe, while he is aimlessly wandering around. Throughout the book Frankenstein's monster is cast away and not given a hand by many people, just like how the lower class is often not helped by the rich, or in his case humans. For instance, when Frankenstein denies his monster a female companion, he wants nothing to do with him and to not help him out because he feels the monster is less than he is.
this is good! I think what you said is true that the monster is maybe a representation of the lower class in a capitalist society where class struggle was obvious.
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