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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the novels "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, and "Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. Specifically, it discusses family ties -- Gulliver's neglect of his family compared to Victor's neglect of his. It looks at how both authors create characters that are far from normal and neglect their families in chaotic and unbelievable worlds. They abandon their families for their own selfish pleasures and wants.

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"Both of these works use family ties, and the lack of them, to perpetuate their own distinct views on the Enlightenment movement, an intellectual movement prevalent in the 18th century, when both of these writers were working and creating. Swift wrote a succinct analysis of the movement in another essay, "Thus God and Nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade Self-love and Social be the same" (Swift and Williams 71). The movement celebrated intellectual thought, and posed the perennial questions, "what is God, man, nature, society, and/or history?" These unusual novels entertain, but they also "enlighten," as they subtly, and not so subtly, attempt to answer these questions, especially as they relate to family and society of the time."

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