Parenting In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

   Frankenstein can be read as a tale of what happens when a man tries to create a child without a woman. It can, however, also be read as an account of a woman's anxieties and insecurities about her own creative and reproductive capabilities. The story of Frankenstein is the first articulation of a woman's experience of pregnancy and related fears. Mary Shelley, in the development and education of the monster, discusses child development and education and how the nurturing of a loving parent is extremely important in the moral development of an individual. Thus, in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley examines her own fears and thoughts about pregnancy, childbirth, and child development.

Companionship is a vital part of a healthy lifestyle for any human, without this feeling of abandonment and or isolation occurs; leading to a damaged individual. Abandonment in ‘Frankenstein’ plays a key role, specifically when it comes to the “monster.” The storyline is ironic in the sense that Victor seeking companionship because of a feeling of abandonment and isolation creates a monster, but then decides to cast it off without gaging its personality. Clearly Victor lacks any emotional attachment even though he spent so many months perfecting the monster and existing close to it. Although not directly referenced, it’s foreshadowed throughout the extracts. For example, through dialogue with Victor the monster brings up the subject of maternal care “you were my father, my creator.” The monster feels that Victor is the parental figure in their relationship and therefore owes a duty of care and responsibility but instead cut off from his father. Also, reflective tone “For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.” Victor seems to have a short moment of affinity, realising his responsibility, but in the end chooses to ignore it. Evidently, demanding tone “I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.” The monster

Communication is important in discipline. Authoritarian parents tend to place an excess worth on the aspects of disciplining a child. Reasons or explanations of the rules for the punishment were never given with my mother. Being an authoritative parent, I lean towards allowing my children to know why the rules are such and what to expect when the rules are broken. A lot of authoritarian power base is achieved through parental intimidation of the child. The authoritative parent is less likely to respond my anger to a rebellion against their rules. When my mother gave punishments they were neither effective nor appropriate. However, by learning through experience I parent with firm but appropriate

Parenting is very important to children, and it directly or indirectly affects all aspects of a child's life, from school and behavior to social relationships and sports.

The creature's physical grotesqueness makes the creature unable to attain affection from the human societies. The creature is initially rejected by his creator, who is the closest resemblance to a mother or father figure. Despite this relationship, Victor finds the creature to be a "miserable monster" (39). Consequently, as soon as life is present within the creature, Victor abandons his child. Victor claims that he "escaped, and rushed down the stairs" (40) away from the

Have your ever felt like your parents have done everything that they can do to be recognized as your parents? There is always this argument between what gives the title of being a parent or if bringing a child into this world is enough to call them our parents. When a couple brings a child into this world they have made the decision to hold themselves responsible for their child. This also comes with general obligations that a parent must fulfill, which is giving the child the knowledge, love, and common sense for them to grow up to be decent human beings. In the case of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein gives life to his creation and does not give the monster any sense of love, knowledge, or basic understanding of common sense. He failed his parental obligations to his creation and cannot be given the title of a parent due to that.

A predominant theme in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is that of child-rearing and/or parenting techniques.  Specifically, the novel presents a theory concerning the negative impact on children from the absence of nurturing and motherly love.  To demonstrate this theory, Shelly focuses on Victor Frankenstein’s experimenting with nature, which results in the life of his creature, or “child”.  Because Frankenstein is displeased with the appearance of his offspring, he abandons him and disclaims all of his “parental” responsibility.  Frankenstein’s poor “mothering” and abandonment of his “child” leads to the creation’s

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Or, Prometheus Unbound analyzes the relationships that develop between creation and creator. The novel is somewhat autobiographical and incorporates many of the feelings, thoughts, and sentiments that Shelley was undergoing at the time. Through her life experiences and her novel, Shelley explores the role of the mother figure and postulates that through the creation of the Monster, Victor Frankenstein usurps the role of mother to detrimental results.

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, was raised by a single parent, her father William Godwin. She acknowledges the mentally stimulating role a father plays in the development of a daughter, presumably speaking from personal experience. She declares, "There is a peculiarity in the education of a daughter, brought up by a father only, which tends to develop early a thousand of those portions of mind, which are folded up” (Veeder). Shelley offers in Frankenstein a portrait of how children’s minds are shape, and ultimately their fates sealed, due to influences from their fathers. Alphonse, Victor’s father, made mistakes in his parenting that negatively shaped the development of Victor’s mind and how he treated other living things.

A predominant theme throughout the novel Frankenstein is that of a parental figure, poor parenting techniques and furthermore the rearing of the child. The main family that brings this theme to light in the novel is Victor and the monster’s, where there really

The story of Frankenstein is one that focuses mainly on the idea of losing touch with the reality of what is family and love whilst in the pursuit of knowledge. This can initially be experienced in the beginning of the novel in the letters Walton sends to his sister Margaret Saville. In this case, Walton, in search of a passage to the Pacific, risks his life without much regard for how his sister may feel. During his voyage Walton eventually gets into a situation, being trapped in the ice, that jeopardizes not only his main objective to find the passage, but the relationships he has at home, specifically his sister.

Though a disturbingly abusive one, Ma’s only way of survival is through Old Nick because he is her only provider of shelter and food. Old Nick may be the capturer of Ma, but because of the situation and her dependency on him, Old Nick takes on this parental figure for her. Similarly, Because Victor created a monster, then abruptly abandoned him shortly after his creation ultimately led to an unconventional parent child relationship where the Parent wants nothing to do with the child and abandons all responsibility that has to do with it. Both Relationships are unconventional parent and child relationships due to the fact that the children, Ma and the creation are controlled and literally created by,

Everyone is influenced by their parents, they influence how we are going to turn out later in life, who we are going to be, and how we will act. “Children are like sponges--they model everything a parent does and incorporate what they see into their own lives.” (Erickson) When a child is young they are still trying to figure out the world and how things work. So in reality, who else would they look up to other than their very own parents? So it only makes sense that kids look up and copy their parents. They are the first people that they see and that they personally get to really know. Now although, some may be influenced by their parents in a good way, others are influenced negatively by not having parents at all. “Children feel an emotional attachment to their parents and feel insecure if this is absent” (Treatment).

When a child misbehaves or disobeys their parent, the adult normally takes on the role of disciplining the child, which is appropriate.

One positive outcome of parental discipline is the child’s development of better morals. Parental discipline is given when the child is acting up. One reason children misbehave is because they pick up on what they see around them. But what the children are picking up are not the best morals a child should have, causing the child to act up. That