ISOLATION AND ALEINATION

Walton on the pain of having no friend

But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy... I have no friend, Margaret.”

Walton on the need for empathy

"I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me, whose eyes would reply to mine."

ictor on how friendship completes humanity

“...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves... does not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures."

Victor’s self-imposed isolation at University

"I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions... I was now alone."

The Creature’s status as an outcast

"I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth."

The Creature on his exclusion from happiness

"Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded."

The Creature on society’s rejection

"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me..."

The Creature’s isolation compared to Satan’s

"Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred."

The Creature on lacking a companion

"No Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone."

The Creature’s demand for an equal

"Shall each man... find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?"