The Miserable And Wretched Creatures Of Mary Shelley s...

Many authors during the early nineteenth century wrote about the horrible working conditions that existed during the Industrialization movement in early nineteenth century Europe. Some wrote directly toward this issue, like Karl Marx in the â€Å"Communist Manifesto,† but others decided voice their opinions through the characters of their literary works. The miserable and wretched creatures of Mary Shelley’s â€Å"Frankenstein† and Charles Dickens’s â€Å"A Christmas Carol† are all products of the same social and cultural forces, however one is more noticeably linked to these issues while the other is more abstract. The two child-like spirits, Ignorance and Want, serve as warnings to Scrooge that society will be littered with people ignorant and wanting†¦show more content†¦This is emphasized even more when the spirit says to â€Å"Beware [the] boy; for on his brow I see that written which Doom, unless the writing be erased.† The two children not only represent the overarching problems that come with having the bourgeoisie reign, but what will later occur if this reign continues to develop further. While the two spirits appear to be small children now, if given the chance to grow and become identical to their fathers, they will us their ignorance and want to worsen the future of society. The â€Å"Doom† written on Ignorance’s face is the doom of society if the bourgeoisie continue to control more of it. Right now the bourgeoisie might just be a small issue, but if the issue continues to grow larger in size, just like the two children, everyone will be filled with the same ignorance and wants and thus society will be just as wretched as these two spirits. Dickens warns his readers to not produce those similar to Ignorance and Want, but rather to be more charitable and giving toward those like them instead. After being rejected by Felix and the other villagers of the cottage, Victor Frankenstein’s monster states â€Å"Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.