Themes -- Doubling
Doubling: involving acting in the manner of another, art copying life,
similarities of action between two figures, or the eerie sense of there
being a second self, a Doppelgänger.
- Introduction 11 and note ("I see them still")
[1831 only]
- Introduction 11 and note ("It was on a dreary
night in November") [1831 only]
- Introduction 12 and note ("My hideous progeny")
[1831 only]
- Letter 1.3 and note ("Day and night")
- Letter 1.4 and note ("Physical science")
- Letter 2.2 and note ("I am too ardent")
- Letter 4.5 and note ("Love him as a
brother")
- Letter 4.6 and note ("The burning ardour of
my soul") [1831 only]
- Letter 4.6 and note ("Do you share my
madness") [1831 only]
- Letter 4.7 and note ("But half made up")
[1831 only]
- 1.3.6 and note ("Their's")
- 1.4.2 and note ("The corpse of my dead mother")
- 1.4.3 and note ("Wretchedly")
- 1.4.6 and note ("I am at length free")
- 1.5.3 and note ("Even now she often reminds me of
her")
- 1.6.7 and note ("This noble war in the
sky")
- 1.6.8 and note ("A depraved wretch")
- 1.6.8 and note ("My own spirit")
- 1.7.5 and note ("Fangs of remorse")
- 1.7.9 and note ("I, the true
murderer")
- 2.1.1 and note ("An evil spirit")
- 2.2.4 and note ("My rage was without bounds")
- 2.2.6 and note ("Abhorred devil")
- 2.2.6 and note ("You accuse me of
murder")
- 2.2.6 and note ("Cursed (although I
curse myself)")
- 2.2.6 and note ("You have made me wretched")
- 2.4.1 and note ("Resolved ... remain
quietly in my hovel")
- 2.4.5 and note ("When I became fully
convinced ... the monster that I am")
- 2.4.6 and note ("Good spirit")
- 2.4.7 and note ("The past was blotted from my
memory")
- 2.5.3 and note ("I ardently desired to
understand them")
- 2.5.6 and note ("Oh that I had forever
remained ... heat")
- 2.7.2 and note ("The path of my departure
was free")
- 2.7.4 and note ("Like Adam")
- 2.7.4 and note ("My form is a filthy
type of your's")
- 2.7.5 and note ("Which would decide my
fate")
- 2.7.6 and note ("The greater became my
desire")
- 2.8.1 and note ("Cursed, cursed
creator!")
- 2.8.1 and note ("Why ... so wantonly
bestowed")
- 2.8.1 and note ("I, like the arch
fiend, bore a hell within me")
- 2.8.4 and note ("A kind of insanity")
- 2.8.4 and note ("Burst all bounds")
- 2.8.7 and note ("Gnashing of teeth")
- 2.8.10 and note ("I am alone, and
miserable")
- 2.9.1 and note ("I could no longer
suppress the rage")
- 2.9.2 and note ("My arch-enemy, because
my creator")
- 2.9.7 and note ("I had no right to
claim their sympathies") [1831 only]
- 3.1.3 and note ("My slavery")
- 3.1.4 and note ("Imagination was
dreadful")
- 3.1.4 and note ("During which I was the
slave of my creature")
- 3.1.5 and note ("Miserable wretch")
- 3.2.1 and note ("The image of my
former self")
- 3.3.3 and note ("I can make you so wretched")
- 3.3.4 and note ("Gnashed his teeth")
- 3.3.6 and note ("Wearing away his time
fruitlessly") [1831 only]
- 3.3.9 and note ("That language"
- 3.4.2 and note ("The same boat")
- 3.4.3 and note ("The anguish of
recognition")
- 3.4.4 and note ("I called myself the murderer")
- 3.4.4 and note ("Of what materials was
I made")
- 3.4.4 and note ("In a prison")
- 3.4.5 and note ("Utter carelessness ... second")
- 3.4.6 and note ("My eyes ... death")
- 3.4.6 and note ("Miserably pent ...
wretchedness")
- 3.4.11 and note ("The shadow of a human
being") [1831 only]
- 3.5.1 and note ("They all died by my
hands")
- 3.5.2 and note ("Sufficent for me was
the consciousness of them")
- 3.5.2 and note ("I curbed the imperious
voice of wretchedness")
- 3.5.7 and note ("New and dear objects
of care will be born")
- 3.5.7 and note ("I would rather ...
friendless outcast over the earth")
- 3.6.4 and note ("What remains of my
hideous narration")
- 3.7.1 and note ("Voluntary thought")
- 3.7.1 and note ("It modelled my
feelings")
- 3.7.1 and note ("A sum of money,
together with a few jewels")
- 3.7.2 and note ("To destroy him I must
drag out my weary existence")
- 3.7.2 and note ("My vow was heard, and
that I was reserved for vengeance")
- 3.7.2 and note ("Miserable wretch")
- 3.7.3 and note ("Who feared that if I
lost all trace I should despair and die")
- 3.7.5 and note ("Come on, my enemy; we
have yet to wrestle for our lives")
- 3.7.5 and note ("Everlasting hatred")
- 3.7.5 and note ("My power is complete")
- 3.7.8 and note ("With what a burning
gush")
- 3.7.9 and note ("Thrust your sword")
- Walton 4 and note ("So miserable a
wretch")
- Walton 8 and note ("An eye so full of lofty
design")
- Walton 10 and note ("Examining my past
conduct")
- Walton 12 and note ("One vast hand was
extended")
- Walton 12 and note ("The wildest rage of some
uncontrollable passion")
- Walton 12 and note ("Generous and
self-devoted being")
- Walton 13 and note ("It did not endure the
violence of the change without torture")
- Walton 14 and note ("I was the slave, not
the master")
- Walton 14 and note ("I had no choice but
to adapt my nature")
- Walton 14 and note ("You throw a torch")
- Walton 15 and note ("I seek not a
fellow-feeling in my misery")
- Walton 15 and note ("The love of virtue")
- Walton 15 and note ("Satisfied that
abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory")
- Walton 17 and note ("My agony was still superior to
thine")