Themes -- Alienation
Alienation: a sense of not belonging, either to a community or to one's own sense of self.
Solitude
Frames on Alienation:
Letter 4.2
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("This apparition ... so distant")
1.2.4
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("M. Krempe")
1.2.7
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("A state of insurrection and turmoil")
1.3.1
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("Pursued it for its own sake")
1.3.5
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("Eight feet in height")
1.3.8
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("Doomed by slavery")
1.4.1
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("Wretch")
1.4.2
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("Wretch -- the miserable monster")
1.4.3
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("A black and comfortless sky")
1.4.8
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("An object")
1.5.4
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("She died on the first approach of cold weather")
1.6.7
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("This noble war in the sky")
1.6.7
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("The wretch, the filthy demon")
1.7.1
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("Mockery of justice")
1.7.1
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("Gazed on and execrated")
1.7.4
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("At one time for five ... years")
1.7.5
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("The blackest ingratitude")
1.7.7
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("I almost began to think that I was the monster")
2.1.2
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("The monster")
2.2.3
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("Anger and hatred")
2.3.1
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("I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch")
2.3.1
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("I sat down and wept")
2.4.2
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("Such lovely creatures")
2.4.5
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("When I viewed myself in a transparent pool")
2.4.5
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("When I became fully convinced ... the monster that I am")
2.5.1
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("Feelings which ... have made me what I am")
2.5.2
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("She was neither understood by ... the cottagers")
2.5.3
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("She and I rapidly improved in the knowledge of language")
2.5.4
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("I improved more rapidly")
2.5.5
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("The strange system of human society")
2.5.5
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("Was I then a monster")
2.5.6
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("Miserable, unhappy wretch")
2.5.7
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("Blind vacancy")
2.5.7
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("Self-deceit")
2.7.1
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("Sorrows of Werter")
2.7.4
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("Satan")
2.7.4
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("Solitary and detested")
2.7.8
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("A destable monster")
2.7.8
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("I have no relation or friend upon earth")
2.7.9
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("That ... virtue")
2.8.1
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("I, like the arch fiend, bore a hell within me")
2.8.1
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("I declared everlasting war ... me")
2.8.2
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("I was a fool")
2.8.2
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("Seek the old man ... win him to my party")
2.8.8
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("A deep and deadly revenge")
2.8.8
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("My desolate state")
2.9.2
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("We shall be monsters ... world")
3.1.2
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("The tie of our domestic comfort")
3.1.4
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("Imagination was dreadful")
3.1.5
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("Careless of what was passing around")
3.3.5
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("A wish ... across me")
3.3.9
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("That language")
3.4.1
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("This deposition did not in the least interest me")
3.4.4
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("In a prison")
3.5.2
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("Sufficent for me was the consciousness of them")
Walton 2
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("Offspring of solitude and delirium")
Walton 9
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("A shout of tumultuous joy")
Walton 12
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("I called on him to stay")
Walton 13
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("The voice of conscience")
Walton 15
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("I am quite alone")
Walton 16
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("I should have wept to die")
