1. Rousseau's Second Discourse and Mary Shelley's Creature
... 's, but upon being beaten with a stick and rejected by them, he "declares ever-lasting war" against all man kind and specifically his creator Victor (Shelley 99). The creature has learned of the evils of the world, he discovers his creator's hatred for him, and thus far his only contact with humans in society are met with fear and rejection. The monster ... acts then he will. Thus, the creature truly becomes the monster that society made him out to be from the start. Mary Shelley cleverly blended Rousseau's views on natural man into Frankenstein in order to demonstrate society distorts t...
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