the exhortations of her father
Mary Shelley's insistence on the deference of daughters to fathers might
be logically connected with her dedication of this novel to her own father;
at the same time, it is rather at odds with her mother's views, and
particularly with her running argument against Rousseau's views on female
education in Book 5 of her
Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What is odd in the present
case is the fact that Felix does not mirror Agatha's reaction. His stance
suggests something of the distance between son and father already
accentuated in the case of Victor and Alphonse Frankenstein.
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