# Frankenstein — Concepts

> Key concepts in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

- [Creation and abandonment](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/concepts/creation-and-abandonment.md): The novel’s moral center is not the spark of life but Victor’s refusal to care for the being he made.
- [Dangerous knowledge](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/concepts/dangerous-knowledge.md): Victor’s discovery is ruinous because he pursues it in secret, without friendship, limit, or a plan for what success would oblige him to do.
- [Isolation](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/concepts/isolation.md): Victor’s guilt and the creature’s rejection are two isolations that lock together until revenge is the only shared language.
- [Appearance and monstrosity](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/concepts/appearance.md): The creature is eloquent, and still every human community judges him by his body before he can finish a sentence.

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