... De Laceys will never return to their cottage and filled with feelings of revenge and hatred, burns down the only home he has ever known: I lighted the dry branches of a tree, and danced with fury around the devoted cottage. . . I waved my brand; the moon sunk, and, with a loud scream, I fired the straw and heath, and bushes, which I had collected. The wind ... ...

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... Frankenstein was the philosopher and social critic, Jean Jaques Rousseau. Rousseau was a 19th Century philosopher who introduced theories concerning the irrepressible confinements of familial obligations. Shelley's disgust at the philosopher's cold-hearted abandonment of his five illegitimate children by Therese le Vasseur, an illiterate working class girl, had a significant impact on the construction of the novel's main character, Frankenstein. Just as ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate