How did the changes brought about by the factory system challenge the family? How do some of the authors included in Chapter Four, in Rogers, treat this issue? Does Mary Shelley have any insights or criticisms with regard to the family and industrial society? The changes brought about by the factory system changed drastically the whole family structure. This is especially evident from the way children and women were treated in the industrial society. Mary …showed first 75 words of 1090 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1090 total…had no friends and no mother nor father; he did not have his creator near him, and he had no one to bless him with "smiles and caresses." "I was alone," he says, and "I remembered Adam's supplication to his creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart, I cursed him." We become more responsive to the creature's isolation, his rejection, and his abandonment. (11-16) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**