SOURCE: "Problems of Perception," in Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters, Methuen, 1988, pp. 127-40.
In the following chapter from her book-length study of Shelley's work, Mellor examines how Shelley depicts human nature in Frankenstein. Considering the novel in its intellectual context, Mellor determines that it "presents diametrically opposed answers": the Rousseauean tabula rasa on one hand and an Augustinian inherent evil on the other.
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