Themes -- Solitude
Solitude: involving its effects on various characters in the novel
Alienation
Letter 1.5
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("Again and again testify")
Letter 2.2
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("I have no friend")
Letter 2.2
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("communication")
Letter 3
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("Well advanced on my voyage")
Letter 4.2
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("A large fragment of ice")
Letter 4.3
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("Fainted")
Letter 4.7
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("Divine wanderer")
Letter 4.7
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("He has retired into himself")
1.1.1
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("Public business")
1.1.2
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("Spent in action")
1.1.6
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("Reflections upon self")
1.1.7
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("To pursue my studies alone")
1.1.10
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("Mathematics")
1.2.3
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("I was now alone")
1.2.5
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("Spent almost in solitude")
1.2.5
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("My want of a guide") [1831 only]
1.3.2
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("Astonishment of the students")
1.3.2
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("Engaged, heart and soul")
1.3.3
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("If cowardice or carelessness did not restrain")
1.3.7
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("To procrastinate")
1.3.8
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("Doomed by slavery")
1.3.8
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("Shunned") [1831 only]
1.5.9
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("Study had ... rendered me unsocial")
1.7.1
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("Gazed on and execrated")
1.7.9
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("I had retired to a corner of the prison-room")
1.7.10
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("The misery that I then endured")
1.7.10
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("Torn by remorse, horror, and despair") [1831 only]
2.1.1
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("An evil spirit")
2.1.1
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("Deep, dark, death-like solitude")
2.1.2
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("Many hours upon the water")
2.1.4
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("Revenge")
2.1.4
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("What can disturb our tranquillity?")
2.1.4
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("I suddenly left my home") [1831 only]
2.1.5
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("At a distance")
2.2.1
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("I determined to go alone")
2.2.6
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("Am I not alone, miserably alone?")
2.3.1
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("Instinctively, finding myself so desolate")
2.4.2
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("An imperfect and solitary being")
2.4.6
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("My imagination")
2.6.5
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("A perpetual exile")
2.7.1
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("I looked ... evil")
2.7.1
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("Sorrows of Werter")
2.7.2
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("The path of my departure was free")
2.7.3
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("I learned ... thoughts")
2.7.4
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("Solitary and detested")
2.7.5
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("Increase of knowledge ... was")
2.7.8
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("I have no relation or friend upon earth")
2.7.9
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("That ... virtue")
2.8.4
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("I did not strive to controul them")
2.8.8
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("A deep and deadly revenge")
2.8.8
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("My desolate state")
2.8.10
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("I am alone, and miserable")
2.8.10
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("Burning passion")
2.9.1
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("Sympathies necessary for my being")
2.9.4
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("Forced solitude")
2.9.7
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("I had no right to claim their sympathies") [1831 only]
3.1.1
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("The most perfect solitude")
3.1.3
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("Its deadly weight yet hanging around my neck")
3.1.4
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("The solitude I coveted") [1831 only]
3.2.1
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("Company was irksome to me")
3.2.1
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("That I might remain alone")
3.2.4
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("To shake off my chains")
3.2.6
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("The tour of Scotland alone")
3.2.8
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("Immersed in a solitude")
3.3.2
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("A howl of devilish despair")
3.3.2
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("The fishermen called to one another")
3.3.2
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("I was alone")
3.3.4
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("And I be alone?")
3.3.5
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("A wish ... across me")
3.3.7
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("Avoided ... any encounter")
3.4.7
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("I could send ... illness")
3.4.11
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("My selfish despair") [1831 only]
3.5.1
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("Inquiries concerning an event")
3.5.4
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("Flying to solitude")
3.5.7
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("I would rather ... friendless outcast over the earth")
3.7.4
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("I had money with me")
3.7.7
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("The ground sea")
3.7.7
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("How many days have passed")
Walton 1
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("In continuation")
Walton 1
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("Are you mad . . . ?")
Walton 2
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("Offspring of solitude and delirium")
Walton 5
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("A husband, and lovely children")
Walton 6
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("I cannot forbear recording it")
Walton 9
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("Mine is assigned to me by heaven")
Walton 15
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("I am quite alone")
