more creditable to cultivate the earth
Mary Shelley emphasizes the extent
to which Elizabeth Lavenza not only has
her feet on the ground, but with her keen eyes surveys its opportunities as
well. If her horizons, in comparison with Victor's (or Walton's), seem
limited by her expectations as a woman, the
drift of this sentence would suggest that they are also insistently
humane. On a biographical level the passage may reveal Mary Shelley's
independent distrust of the legal profession brought on by the problems
Percy encountered from his
father's attorney as he attempted to secure the
annuity promised him.
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