Dejection In Joan's As For The Creature

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Another key point is the dejection these characters face when pursuing their eccentric interests. Joan lives within a time period in which wanting to be anything else but a mother is considered obscene and unimaginable. Her ambition to acquire new knowledge is looked down upon and viewed as a sin, “ I read by night so no one would know. I knew you would not approve “ (Cross 57). Due to the constant reprimands she receives she is left to fight her inner struggles of self-worth and deal with rejection from her family and society. This rejection underlines how she is an outcast within her own time period. As for The Creature he aspires to be a friend to society,yet he is constantly leered at for believing it would ever happen. His belief that

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