Themes -- Male Friendship
Male Friendship: male bonding among the principal human characters is unusually pronounced, as is the fact of the Creature's isolation from it.
Themes -- Female Friendship
Letter 2.1
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("Men on whom I can depend")
Letter 2.2
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("I have no friend")
Letter 4.5
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("Love him as a brother")
Letter 4.6
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("A friend")
Letter 4.7
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("But half made up") [1831 only]
Letter 4.7
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("I once had a friend")
Letter 4.9
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("My friend")
1.1.5
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("Henry Clerval")
1.1.1
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("My father loved Beaufort")
1.1.5
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("Friend")
1.1.5
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("Intimate friend of my father")
1.2.5
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("My want of a guide") [1831 only]
1.4.4
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("Henry Clerval")
1.5.6
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("I loved him")
1.5.9
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("Excellent friend")
1.6.8
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("My own spirit")
1.7.10
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("My beloved and only friend")
3.1.7
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("Friendship")
3.7.8
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("With what a burning gush")
3.7.9
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("Call on the manes")
Walton 3
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("I have longed for a friend")
Walton 11
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("My mind is overshadowed by a cloud of disappointment")