FRANKENSTEIN, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE HUMANITIES BASE THEMES
The creature's ambiguous humanity has long puzzled readers and viewers of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The novel offers rich materials for philosophical reflection; we can find many connections linking Frankenstein, the Humanities Base Themes, and topics often discussed in Introduction to Philosophy. In this essay I will focus on how Frankenstein can be used to explore two philosophical topics, social contract theory, and gender roles, in light of ideas from Shelley's two philosophical parents, William Godwin, …
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…feminine gender socialization, should their characters be perverted, as Wollstonecraft would have predicted?
How did Victor's masculine gender socialization shape his character? Was it one important variable in why he abandoned the creature?
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WORKS CITED
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Emile. 1762. translated by William Boyd, New York: Columbia University, 1956.
Shelley, Mary. 1818. Frankenstein. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1792. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
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