... low wages, and increasing cost of living were only a part of the evils facing the proletariat" (Montag 368 as quoted in White 29). This gap gave the bourgeoisie an increasing amount of control over the proletariats. Shelley scrutinizes the bourgeoisie's alienation of the proletariats through her portrayal of Victor's work to create the monster. The theory of alienation, as described by Karl Marx's Economic and ... for many months even after his project is finished. Victor's inability to function is in direct correlation with the two years he solely devoted to the work on the monster. Mar...

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