Shelley's disgust at the philosopher's cold-hearted abandonment of his five illegitimate children by Therese le Vasseur, an illiterate working class girl, had a significant impact on the construction of the novel's main character, Frankenstein. ... He becomes condemned to the same miserable existence he sentenced his creation to. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate