Summary of Jean Jaques Rousseau Political background to Frankenstein
Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) Background - Mother died at birth, his father treated him extremely cruelly, eventually deserting him as a child. ... Rousseau’s philosophies and the ‘Noble Savage’ myth -Rousseau reacted against the artificiality and corruption of the social customs and institutions of society. ... - Rousseau argued: ‘the savage lives within himself while social man lives outside himself and can only live in the opinion of others’ - Aware of an innate goodness of humans in their natural state; individualism; reverence for nature; primitivism. In the context of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ - The monster is the noble savage.