1. Rousseau's Second Discourse and Mary Shelley's Creature
Initially, the monster had been stealing some of the family's food and firewood as a way to secure his own self-preservation, he states "I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighboring wood" (Frankenstein, 77). ...
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