Similarities Between Shelley And Mary Wollstonecraft
Fact and Fiction Inside all people exists the capacity for unquestionable goodness, blind compassion, and universal empathy. Such an understanding holds a flicker of optimism, like the smile of a young child, untouched by the cruelties of the grown-up world; innocent is this child, for society permits their ignorance. This initial understanding also echoes a hidden flaw inside all people: the dark side of the nature of society that is not embedded deep inside the unconscious, but visible by observant eyes, keen to defy that which, in hindsight, is marked with suspicion and disapproval. Authors Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Godwin Shelley serve the role of inquisitive minds, subtly or undeniably exposing the hard truths of a time period in
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A line from the chapter takes note of the necessity for a complete and empowered mother figure, saying “I now only mean to insist, that unless the understanding of woman be enlarged, and her character rendered more firm, by being allowed to govern her own conduct, she will never have sufficient sense or command of temper to manage her children properly” (Wollstonecraft 97). Essentially, Wollstonecraft believes that empowering women with acknowledgement and understanding will in turn provide them the emotional muscle necessary in transferring similar traits of independence and command of temper unto her children, rather than simply loving children to fill a role of obligatory and emotionless interaction. A similar idea is portrayed in Frankenstein, as Doctor Frankenstein constructs a creature out of fascination with science, failing to include necessary human qualities of love, compassion, and empathy, which a newborn baby learns by diffusion in a healthy family. Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley possess strong underlying confidence in the power a surrounding has on the development of character, whether with human children, or the perturbed adolescence of a monster that never knew what love really was. In Frankenstein, a monster gaining insight and the ability to reflect expresses himself
A line from the chapter takes note of the necessity for a complete and empowered mother figure, saying “I now only mean to insist, that unless the understanding of woman be enlarged, and her character rendered more firm, by being allowed to govern her own conduct, she will never have sufficient sense or command of temper to manage her children properly” (Wollstonecraft 97). Essentially, Wollstonecraft believes that empowering women with acknowledgement and understanding will in turn provide them the emotional muscle necessary in transferring similar traits of independence and command of temper unto her children, rather than simply loving children to fill a role of obligatory and emotionless interaction. A similar idea is portrayed in Frankenstein, as Doctor Frankenstein constructs a creature out of fascination with science, failing to include necessary human qualities of love, compassion, and empathy, which a newborn baby learns by diffusion in a healthy family. Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley possess strong underlying confidence in the power a surrounding has on the development of character, whether with human children, or the perturbed adolescence of a monster that never knew what love really was. In Frankenstein, a monster gaining insight and the ability to reflect expresses himself