Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) explores the consequences of our lust for power. But it is also the story of how the different and the deviant are excluded from human society. Frankenstein's "Creature" is arguably the least monstrous character in this story of murder revenge and isolation. "The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.