# Isolation and Otherness in The Vampire

> Theme guide for The Vampire by John William Polidori.

Lord Ruthven is depicted as a solitary, inscrutable figure, alienated from society despite his participation in it, embodying the Romantic trope of the mysterious, cursed outsider.

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