In the story of Mary Shellys Frankenstein there is the moment where the lost monster abandoned by his master becomes the forest spirit to a farm house.

and finds solace when the family leave the blind father named De Lacey behind to look after the house during winter. He teaches Frankenstein how to talk and about philosophy and life. As the Blind old man doesn’t see his constructed face of many body parts holds no prejudices. Frankenstein is given the keys to unlock his origins after his master wishes to hunt down and destroy his mis-creation he can not face as a failure. With a Final confrontation with his maker the expression of language leads to reason where the Monster can see that he is the end of the lineage of a hated shadow passed from generation to generation by false hopes of cheating death or exoneration through reason.

In the book Count of Monte Christo, the betrayed and abandoned falsely imprisoned Edmond Dante’s writhes in prison.

He attempts to escape by digging a way out finds a tunnel to an old mans cell who is doing the same thing. Abbé Faria, an Italian priest and highly learned man imprisoned at Château d’If since 1811 finds solace in each others company and the old man teaches everything from Latin, to economics, poetry, languages, mathematics and even philosophy. He is given the map to a great fortune and revenge to find meaning in his lost loves, and betrayals only to find it has no redemption in revenge but sets about a trail of disastrous chaos. Its as if in the underworld of escaping the prison of the mind. The old man teacher Abbe Farai was the evil reflection of Dante. An older Version of his own wish to find the fortune hidden on the outside of the prison of his own mind.

Moby dick Captain Ahab chases this great white whale half imagined, hafl possibly the disaster of challenge within himself. Similar to Victor Frankenstein he could never usurp the father, redeem his mothers love, nor conquer the vast sea between the monster conjured from within rather than allow life and love to follow its own path. It seems the need to change via force of weapons or electricity is the modus operandi of madness and not the true force of human interaction in family and societal bonds.

To see a man in the hell realms of his own losses observing the realms of suffering by the fact that the first realm of hell is Limbo. To which you can see the setting of all the previously mentioned stories are set in various limbos. Edmonds prison of physical and mental means of unfairness, Frankensteins eternal winter of immortality. Captain Ahabs endless obsession in an uncaring sea of creatures alien to the human form. Christs need to find a solution in which suffering can be usurped. Dante’s wish to find the missing love spurned by a love that was taken from his physical existence.

This play between empathy sympathy and the art of suffering ordered in to a world of choices best exemplified by Dante’s guide Virgil. How the premise of the human experience is expressed as a great need to find peace in the journey not the expectations, needs or outcomes. Being with nothing seems to be a common thread of expression and those with many things are fighting the endlessness of human experience alien to the feeling of being at one with the moment of creation where thought becomes flesh, and then the word becomes flesh in expression of this lost fallen angel moment.

A book written by Paul Schrader and a movie made by Martin Scorsese.

Again Christ depicted as a coherent mentally ill heretic, going against the grain of society. All in a historic time where brutality was the only way of maintaining order in a society with so many competing ideals, religions and suffering.

In the realm of life everything has a purpose of experience. The fractal keeps condensing until it doesn’t.

Like Vernon Linwood howard once said as I paraphrase.