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One of the main themes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the importance of appearance and acceptance in modern society. In today’s society, as well as in the society of Frankenstein, people often judge others solely on their looks. Most social prejudices are often based on looks, whether it is the color of someone’s skin, the clothes that a person wears, the facial features that one has, and even the way one stands. People make snap judgments based on these things and that affects the way they present themselves to one another, and also the way that the treat the judged person. In Frankenstein, the society of that time period is much like our own today. It is an appearance based society, and this is brought to the forefront by the extreme ugliness of Victor Frankenstein’s monster compared to a common human being. On of the most blatant parallels in Frankenstein and in today’s modern world is that of racism. This parallel shows from the very first moment of Frankenstein’s creature’s life. One of the first things Victor says about his new alive creation is about how his creature’s skin was thin and yellow and he viewed his creation with horror and disgust. Here one finds that like the vast majority of people then a