Education is not only attainable through schooling, but one’s experiences can be a means for his/her education, like Rousseau believed education is gained through “other things” and it can be seen when Frankenstein was able to learn to survive on his own through the education he gained from his experiences from nature.
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What’s good:
1- You have a theory text and a literary text.
2- You make a claim.
3- You try to put the two texts in conversation.
Concerns
1- As worded your thesis is so passively stated that it almost feels like it’s not a thesis about the texts. Notice that in your sentence Rousseau and Shelley are tack ons! (“like Rousseau believed…” and “it can be seen when Frankenstein.” ) You need to make a thesis about the text, and your language should be active, direct, and clear that your claim is about the text. In Frankenstein, the monster illustrates the importance of what Rousseau calls an education through “other things.” Through handling and encountering objects and phenomenon and nature, the monster learns all he needs to survive on his own.
2- Even once I made your thesis statement more active, it is not complete. You need a “so what.” Without one the claim borders on just observation. You need to tell me what it matters to how we read Shelley or Rousseau or both.