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This 5 page paper argues that both "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and "Frankenstein" presents the idea that education is the key to liberation, both in terms of women, and for the monster in Frankenstein. It agrees with the first premise but not the second. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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opportunities; in Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, "incorporates many of the ideas brought forth by her mother in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (A
vindication of the rights of women, 2006). This paper argues that both books present the idea that education is the key to liberation, both in terms of women, and for
the monster in Frankenstein. Discussion Well begin with the older work. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote "[T]he little respect which the male world pay to chastity is, I am persuaded, the
grand source of many of the physical and moral evils that torment mankind, as well as of the vices and follies that degrade and destroy women; yet at school, boys
infallibly lose that decent bashfulness, which might have ripened into modesty, at home" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She also believes that they learn "nasty indecent tricks" from each other (Wollstonecraft, 2005). When
girls are educated in an all-girls school, they also acquire "bad habits" that "females acquire when they are shut up together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). Her solution to the problem of the
bad behavior boys and girls exhibit when they are educated separately is simple: "that to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to
be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should be educated "after the same model"; to do otherwise means
that relationships between the sexes "will never deserve the name of fellowship, nor will women ever fulfil the peculiar duties of their sex, till they become enlightened citizens, till they
become free by being enabled to earn their own subsistence, independent of men" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). This is an extremely daring thing to say in 1792 when women were really property,
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