Once Upon a time in the Romantic Period...
The them of exile found in Victorian and Twentieth Century literature was created by Romantic Period poets. This theme is represented by a character who is separated from society because he/she has rejected it, or because society has rejected him/her. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written in 1818, "transforms a story about a fabricated monster into a powerful representation of the moral distortion imposed on an individual who, because he diverges from the norm, is rejected by society" (Abrams 20). The created being, or monster, is a victim of exile. He is rejected by society and in return, rejects society, making him the giver and receiver of rejection.