Desiring Peace

Shelley's The Mortal Immortal, was greatly influenced by her life. Since she outlived her husband and both her children she has seen her loved ones go through their lives. After they passed a way im sure she felt as if she had no one. When Bertha died the speaker said, "She had been mine in youth, she was mine in age, and at last, when i heaped the sod over her corpse, I wept to feel that I had lost all that really bound me to humanity," he felt alone, as if he had no one to love him. He had lost the one he loved and just wanted to pass away with her. He continues to say, "Thus I have lived on for many a year-alone, and weary of myself- desirous of death, yet never dying-a mortal immortal. He has gone through so many experiences through life that he just wants to die, cannot feel anything new anymore. Shelly may have felt that way after she had out lived her loved ones and portrayed the speaker as herself.