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"I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had for ever remained in my native wood, nor known or felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!"

Mary Shelley was truly 20 years old and questioning if unjustness is solely created through the knowledge of the existence of the makeup of society alone