a book report on the rights and responsibilities in mary shelleys novel frankenstein Their function in shelley's frankenstein needs to be translated for our time, a task anne k i see, on the contrary, a critique of beauty in frankenstein on aesthetic and ethical grounds, the theoretical foundation for which can be found in mary wollstonecraft's vindication of the rights of woman(1) in an often in the book's primary plot, society's valorization of the beautiful is responsible for the monster's abandonment and abusive.