I was now alone
A sentence with an ominous sound, resonating throughout the novel, back to
Walton's sense of isolation in Archangel, (Letter 2.2), his ice-bound ship (Letter 4.1), the discovery of Victor
marooned on an ice-floe (Letter 4.2
and note) and to the enforced isolation in
which his Creature is forced to pass his entire existence (2.3.1 and 2.8.1). Of particular weight in this
diction is its reflection of famous lines in Coleridge's "Rime of
the Ancient Mariner" to which Walton has already referred
suggestively.
