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Isolation in Frankenstein
Walton has no friend. Victor works alone for two years. The creature is the loneliest being on earth. Everyone in this book is alone.
Isolation in Frankenstein: 15 key quotes. Learn this one first: “Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity” (the Creature, Chapter 10).
The quotes
15 quotes, in the order they happen.
I have no friend
Walton is on a ship full of men and has nobody to talk to. Loneliness starts the book.
We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up
Victor · Letter 4 · family · isolation
People are unfinished on their own. They need a friend to complete them. Victor to Walton, about Clerval.
Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity
Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation
The creature says he was good. He wanted to love. People made him what he is.
Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel
Creature · Chapter 10 · creation · responsibility · isolation
I should have been your Adam, your first man. Instead you treat me like the devil.
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!
Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation
Everyone hates the unlucky. And nobody is as unlucky as him.
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.
Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation
I was good. Being miserable turned me bad. Make me happy again.
Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?
Creature · Chapter 13 · prejudice · isolation
He sees himself in water for the first time and learns what he looks like. He asks if he really is a monster.
I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me
Creature · Chapter 16 · revenge · isolation
Like the devil, he carries hell around inside him.
I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me
Creature · Chapter 16 · isolation
Nobody will be with him. That is why he wants a companion made like him.
I am malicious because I am miserable.
Creature · Chapter 17 · revenge · isolation · prejudice
I am bad because I am unhappy. Make me happy and I will be good. His whole argument in six words.
You must create a female for me
Creature · Chapter 17 · isolation · creation
He asks for one companion. Then he will go away for ever.
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Victor · Chapter 23 · family · isolation
After Elizabeth is killed. Losing everything at once is the worst pain there is.
I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew
Victor · Chapter 24 · family · isolation
His family is dead. There is nothing to rebuild with.
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
Creature · Walton's last letters · isolation · prejudice · responsibility
His last speech, over Victor's body. Abandoned. Kicked. Something that should not have been born.
Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
Creature · Walton's last letters · revenge · isolation
Nowhere left to go. He will burn himself on the ice.
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