Emotional Isolation In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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To clarify on the topic of emotional isolation, it is a form of mental individuality. One does not need to be physically alone to experience emotional isolation, which is portrayed by Robert Walton. From the beginning of the novel, it takes place on a ship with Robert Walton and his crew with a ship to the Arctic Ocean. Although Walton is physically with other men, he mentally isolates himself from them mainly due to the fact that he thinks he is more intelligent than his companions and his crew would not understand the meanings of his voyage and journey. Due to the fact that he is well educated and his mates are not, it sets a barrier and in his mindset he states that “But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate in my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection" (Shelley 18). Walton feels as if his important scientific discoveries are too beyond the capacity of his boat companions and thus, he has no one to truly share how he feels.