Letter 2, Page 4
"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, Margaret: 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."
This quote relates to my topic because Robert was completely alone on his trip to the North pole. He blamed it on his higher education and how it put him in such a place that no one can relate to him.
2) Chapter 3, Page 30
"I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away and indulged in the most melancholy reflections. I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions,
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He has no one to comfort which is why I think he created the monster in the first place to not feel so much alone.
3) Chapter 4, Page 42
"Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime."
The isolation being shown here by Victor has now begun to get physical. All the time he spent making his monster has caused him to become ill and to have lost a lot of sleep. I also think that this ties with isolation because he has himself away from everyone else that he has no one to take care of him.
4) Chapter 6, Page 56
"I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide to him that event which was so often present to my recollection but which I feared the detail to another would impress more
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Everything from the creature being created has Victor so fearful and he finds himself stuck in his thoughts not letting himself come back to reality and see what’s really going on. Will he ever let his thoughts come back to life in the real? I think he will because in future he will have no other choice but to get over his feeling.
5) Chapter 13, Page 109
"And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man."
This relates to my topic isolation because the monster feel like he is unwanted by everyone including his creator. This made him feel the need that he needed to remove himself away from the humans or anything living because they all made him feel not welcome to society.
6) Chapter 15, Page 121
"I am an unfortunate and deserted creature; I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world