Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Isolation
- Walton
- Novel starts with Walton's
complaints to his sister about his
lack of companionship.
- pg. 19: "I bitterly feel the want
of a friend"
- Finds company in Victor -
sees him as his intellectual
equal.
- pg. 28: "I begin to love
him as a brother" "He is
so gentle, yet so wise"
- Remote setting of the Arctic Circle
- pg. 25: "vast and irregular
plains of ice, which
seemed to have no end."
- Victor
- His sufferings are primarily caused by
his (self-inflicted) alienation from others.
- pg. 163: "I saw an insurmountable
barrier placed between me and my
fellow men..."
- Victor insists that
his isolation is
imposed because
of the monster's
crimes.
- pg. 95: "I lived in daily fear
lest the monster whom I had
created should perpetrate
some new wickedness."
- Chooses to isolate
himself from family and
friends to carry out his
scientific experiments.
- pg. 157: "I must absent
myself from all I loved while
thus employed."
- The creature
- His sufferings are primarily
caused by man alienating him.
- pg. 147: "I am malicious because
I am miserable"
- His creator abandons him.
- pg. 102: "You, my creator,
deteste and spurn me, thy
creature, to whom thou art
bound"
- Persecuted by mankind.
- Longs for companionship and affection. His
unhappiness comes from his awareness
that he will never experience love.
- pg. 134: "No Eve soothed
my sorrows nor shared my
thoughts; I was alone."