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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a tale that is set at the time of the industrial revolution in
Europe in the 1800s. From the novel, education came to bear the load of concerns regarding the
control of the individuals who had not gone through the tradition of formal education. Such people
were susceptible to social instability. Even conservatives such as Hannah More who were
antagonists of radical reform acknowledged the influential power of education especially reading
as a powerful element of social control. The novel focuses on the human nature as well as the
likelihood controlling experience to shape character and cultural values. Additionally, it stresses
on the challenging influences from experience on the vulnerable and unstable individuals who face
Mary Shelley describes Caroline as an example of true femininity who was liberated from
class degradation. As a result, Caroline searched for other girls who were in the same situation to
rescue them from lower class powers. Caroline achieved her objectives through educating the
young girls on the qualities of a precisely conventional domesticity. She meet Elizabeth who had
an innate and upper-class feminine quality that made her the outstanding one in the family of
dark-eyed, barely little vagabonds. (Shelley 28). Under the appropriate middle-class influence,
Elizabeth proved to be a perfect domestic woman, a sister, a friend, a daughter, and a wife-to-be.
Additionally, Justine was rescued and cultured by Victors mother. Besides, Justine
imitated the manners and the phraseology of victors mother (Shelley 69). As a low-class member
and a servant, Justines social position revealed cultural anxieties regarding the vulnerability of
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women and the stabilizing duty of middle-class domestic education. Justine is a representation of
a female advancement, something that became evident when Elizabeth described Carolines
approval of Justine by praising the flexible class boundaries in Geneva. As she put it there is a
small difference between the various classes of its dwellers, and the lower class being neither so
despised nor so poor, they have more refined manners and morals (Shelley 69). Such claims
concerning flexibility became evident from the fact that Justine who was regarded as a lower class
woman and whose learning failed to take, was accused of dying for Williams killer. Therefore, it
shows that educated women are fulfilled and fulfill their social duties and thus pose a minimum
danger of tampering with culture as well as its values. One of the ways this literary work has
affected my way of thinking and the cultural persepectives is that all people including men and
To proceed, as the education of Victor parallels that of Walton, so is the monsters echo of
his maker. Here, there exist clear cultural anxieties concerning criminal potential, social disorder,
and the link between education and experience. Victors education is a reflection of particular
cultural concerns regarding bourgeois parenting. The monster from the novel represents the
abstract idea of natural man as well as his social corresponding in the late 18th century culturally
displaced England. The freshly rising worker lacks class traditions to guard and guide him. The
monster describes his story as an explanation of the development of my intellect. (Shelley 151).
It refers to the development theories regarding class identity, social hierarchy, as well as the
historically specific cultural issues about powerful prospective of the growing lower class. As with
the monster, deviations in the description of the novel reveal significant changes in cultural
perceptions of personality. Whatever that led Victor to the mad dream makes no sense. The
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impression of human influence over life and oneself, an idea depicted by technology is shattered
values from the novel Frankenstein. Besides, unstable people such as women and low-class people
have faced various problems regarding reading, education, and culture. Some of the women who
were liberated from class degradation include Caroline. Personally, I have encountered various
individuals who look down upon the poor and the low-class people. It is a culture that has been
there for years, but it is not as intense as when it began. Society has put a clear distinction between
men and women, poor and rich, and literate and illiterate. However, if the society embraces the
culture of equality regardless of class, gender and race, there will be positive cultural perceptions.
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