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The article “Master of their language”: Education and Exile in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by
John Bugg throws light on the narratives provided on education in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's
"Frankenstein," specifically emphasizing the language of race as well as the phenomenon of
slavery. The article revolves around the inquiry of race and empire in the context of various
problems. It is set up such that it focuses on the education of the Creature as well as the
education of Victor Frankenstein who is a protagonist.
In this article, John Bugg, the writer analyzes the link and relations amongst language, alterity,
and empire in two of Frankenstein's narratives of education. The two narratives of education by
Frankenstein are
i. Education of the Creature
ii. Education of Victor Frankenstein.
Summarizing the article, the Creature's recognition of his discrepancy is con-substantial with his
coming across the scenes of reading specifically provokes the “Trope of the Talking Book”
content of the previously slave author like James Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano. Shelley
improves on and adds detail to the education of the Creature in his own alterity into an expanded
education in the imperial history, so that the Creature starts to get company with those victims of
empire who are displaced. It is this education in exile, Bugg adds that, which further fire’s up the
Creature's revenge: he determines to have Frankenstein learn not only what it means to be “cut
off from all the world,” but also, similar to the Creature, to comprehend the language which
denotes his own exile.

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SUMMARY The article “Master of their language”: Education and Exile in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by John Bugg throws light on the narratives provided on education in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein," specifically emphasizing the language of race as well as the phenomenon of slave ...
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