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A 3 page essay that contrasts the social position of Mary Shelley and Karl Marx. The writer argues that both writers looked at the rapidly evolving industrialization of Europe with a critical eye, Shelley through fiction and Marx through his political writing, such as the Communist Manifesto. This examination of Marx's political perspective on morality demonstrates parallel points of view with Shelley's conception of the oppression that shaped the formerly innocent being known as the Monster into a rampaging murderer. In both cases, behavior is related to the mechanisms of society and the manner in which the bourgeoisie was failing during this era to live up to its obligations in a moral manner. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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political writing, such as the Communist Manifesto. An examination of Marxs political perspective on morality demonstrates parallel points of view with Shelleys conception of the oppression that shaped the
formerly innocent being known as the Monster into a rampaging murderer. In both cases, behavior is related to the mechanisms of society and the manner in which the bourgeoisie was
failing during this era to live up to its obligations in a moral manner. According to Marx, a particular social class could rule over the remainder of society as
long as that class best represented the economically productive forces of that society. Writing in the nineteenth century from a European perspective, Marx had the example in history of how
bourgeois capitalist society had overcome and replaced the no longer productive European feudal nobility, establishing the new industrialized order. Marx perceived the laissez-faire capitalism of the nineteenth century as being
riddled with weaknesses, contradictions and inequalities, which caused him to argue that bourgeoisie control of the means of production was, in fact, immoral in the manner in which the working
class people were oppressed. He predicted that these factors would be come increasingly severe and result in economic crisis as industrialization progressed (Witt, et al, 1980). Furthermore, Marx
predicted in his Communist Manifesto that the inevitable overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat would first succeed in a highly industrialized capitalistic nation (Marx, 1993). In other words, Marx
pictured capitalism as inherently unfair and the working class people as oppressed to the point that social revolution was justifiable. He felt the bourgeoisie, like feudal overlords before them, were
no longer looking after the welfare of society, but were only concerned with their own enrichment. Similarly, Shelley in her novel Frankenstein emphasizes the humanity of the Monster, whom
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