"Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame and render a man invulnerable to any but a violent death!" ... Frankenstein's 19th Century Genevan society is founded on the patriarchal division of gender roles. ... Subsequently, this separation of masculine work from familial affections is what leads directly to his downfall. ... This scientific discovery, and others similar to it, would have had a significant impact on society at the time. ... In creating a character, which exemplified the masculine, scientific...

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This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. ... Philosophers were the first to realize what the aristocratic society, the bourgeois, and the bourgeoisie failed to understand. ... Mimicking the scientists" curiosity, philosophers questioned the basic workings of government and society and in doing so gave rise to the Age of Enlightment. ... The philosophers were elite members of society, and despite the context of their messages, they were not always free from discrimination. ... In its early ye...

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