Logan Ward Ms. Schroder English IV Honors 7 December 2016 Father Frankenstein In most societies around the world, people are responsible for the upbringing, care, and general safety and health of their children. In this vital time in children’s lives, the way a parent goes about raising them can leave a lasting impression, for better or worse. If a parent raises a child to be proper, respect others and their environment, and instills a sense of responsibility in them, then the child should theoretically grow up to be proper, respecting others and their environment, while having a sense of responsibility. Assuming that the child does not reject the philosophies that their parent has taught them, the child will have the aspects their parent …show more content…
Frankenstein shuns his creation, deciding that his creation is a catastrophe, and removing himself as the “father” figure he was to his “son”. As he had taken all of the most “beautiful” human body parts he could find, he had believed that his creation would be beautiful, and thus was terrified and shocked when his creation was a horrible monstrosity. His shunning created animosity in his “monster”, as the creature became irate about its loneliness, and desired to obtain vengeance against his creator. This is similar to a child, who shunned by its parent, will often desire retribution against their parent, or sometimes even the world, for their misery and missed childhood. Victor himself was raised in a nurturing environment, and was able to form connections with others, while the monster was unable to, as his creator did not imbue him with the social abilities to interact with others, neither teaching him nor giving him the ability to form social connections. The monster’s lack of a maternal figure also plays into its perceived lack of morality. Frankenstein did not kill, and was raised in a loving environment by his mother and father, while his creation had no …show more content…
This enraged the monster, as after it left Frankenstein’s care, it craved vengeance, and began to disrupt Frankenstein’s life, just as Frankenstein had done to it. Upon meeting its “uncle”, the young boy William Frankenstein, in the woods for the first time, the monstrosity does not know who the boy is, and although it did not intend to hurt the boy at first, upon realizing that he was the brother of Dr. Frankenstein, he killed him in a rage. He meets Dr. Frankenstein again, and actually gets its creator to agree to create it an equally ugly bride for himself, so that it could have someone to love, and someone who understood the pain he felt as well. However, Dr. Frankenstein further angers the monster by later changing his mind, destroying the bride that he had started to create. To avenge its now-non existent wife, it kills Dr. Frankenstein’s best friend, Henry Clerval. In its extended fury, the monster kills Elizabeth, Frankenstein’s fiancee, on their wedding night for Frankenstein’s further denial of the familial love and affection it desired. When considered, all of the monster’s violent actions and eventual tendencies are sparked by Frankenstein’s transgressions against it, and the Doctor’s life may have been much less traumatic and harrowing had he just cared for the very creature that