Intertexual annalysis

Christopher McCandless believes that happiness can only be real if one can share it with another person. Frankenstein came to a similar conclusion. After spending two years in solitude, he realizes the mistake he made: "I was lifeless, and did not recover my senses for a long, long time" (38). He had no one to share his secret with, and when Justine was accused and convicted of murder, Frankenstein, "felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation" (59). Frankenstein has not spoken about the monster up until this point because he is afraid of being called a madman: "I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity" (51). It is not just happiness that must be shared, but all of life. Undergoing Frankenstein's experiment alone has left him helpless. McCandless also says that people need to think they are strong. Frankenstein's experiment made him feel strong, only to come to realize how that strength was the cause of his downfall and the deaths of William and Justine, two innocent people.