Obtaining as much knowledge as one can and gaining an education doesn’t just come from books and teachers, but from ourselves also, as expressed by Rousseau in Emile who believed in the importance of being free and relying on nature and experience in order to find truth for ourselves, this is also expressed in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, when the creature had to live and learn on his own in the world.
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What’s good:
1-I know which literary and which theory text you’re looking at.
2-I have a sense of where you want to focus (on the freedom of learning by nature).
3- I know you see a parallel between the two texts.
Concerns
1-You need a stronger thesis (see below).
2-You need a so what (see above). Your thesis is essentially there is a parallel between these two texts when it comes to this particular idea. That’s more of an observation than an arguable claim. But if you told me why that parallel mattered, how does it affect the way we understand what Rousseau says or what Shelley says or both, then you’d have a so-what and a stronger thesis.
3- You’re a little broad now. I don’t have an understanding of the specific parts of the text you’re going to look at. I think being a little more nuanced here could also help you with numbers 1 and 2 .