Themes -- Death
Death: the frequency of death, and the place of the dead, are both
involved in this theme.
- Letter 1.3 and note ("Cousin")
- Letter 4.7 and note ("Cannot begin life
anew")
- 1.2.1 and note ("Death-bed")
- 1.2.2 and note ("She whom we saw every
day")
- 1.3.6 and note ("My person had become
emaciated")
- 1.3.6 and note ("I seemed to have
lost")
- 1.4.6 and note ("The creature ... might
still be there, alive")
- 1.4.7 and note ("Restored me to life")
- 1.5.4 and note ("Left childless")
- 1.5.4 and note ("She died on the first
approach of cold weather")
- 1.6.1 and note ("William is dead!")
- 1.6.4 and note ("Sleeps with his angel
mother")
- 1.6.6 and note ("Lightnings")
- 1.6.9 and note ("Kneeling by the
coffin of her dead father")
- 2.1.1 and note ("Deep, dark,
death-like solitude")
- 2.6.6 and note ("The poor girl died")
- 3.1.1 and note ("The most perfect
solitude")
- 3.4.6 and note ("My eyes ... death")
- 3.4.10 and note ("I often endeavoured to put an
end to the existence")
- 3.7.1 and note ("The spirits of the departed
seemed to flit around")
- 3.7.2 and note ("To destroy him ... my weary
existence")
- 3.7.3 and note ("I was cursed by some devil ...
my eternal hell")
- 3.7.5 and note ("Everlasting hatred")
- 3.7.7 and note ("The spirits of the dead")
- 3.7.9 and note ("Call on the manes")
- Walton 6 and note ("Many of my
unfortunate comrades have already found a grave")
- Walton 7 and note ("Smooth and placid as a
southern sea")
- Walton 9 and note ("Mine is assigned to me by
heaven")
- Walton 10 and note ("Miserable himself, that
he may render no other wretched")
- Walton 15 and note ("I seek not a
fellow-feeling in my misery")