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Education is a very important topic in
Frankenstein because we get it in two ways: Taught by institutions, and
self-taught.
In the case of the creature, we know that he
taught himself to speak, read, and that his analytical skills were
superb.
We realize this way that an education given at the
best schools (such as the main character, Victor) do not give half the gist of life and
philosophy as an education acquired at one's own pace (like the creature's). The
creature not only educated himself, but disciplined himself, contrasted himself to the
rest of the world, and even gave himself rules to live
by.
This shows that education may be portrayed in the
novel as a gift that is inherent to whoever beholds it, and used as much as the owner's
temperament can allow.
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