Sofia Cervantes Mr. Murtaugh Frankenstein Essay 2 26 April 2024. The Value of Family: Are parents ever too strict? Not strict enough. As teenagers are encouraged to meet higher expectations in academics, athletics, and extracurricular activities, many parents in today’s society place more pressure on their children in fear that they may not succeed. However, many parents neglect or don’t provide enough support for their children, resulting in social withdrawal, depression, and body-image issues. Teenagers today often struggle mentally and are challenged in their daily lives due to the lack of support they receive. In Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor doesn’t properly nurture his creature, neglecting and avoiding him. Shelley highlights the importance …show more content…
When Victor first created the creature, he was excited to reveal his new form of life to the world. Enthusiastic to meet his new creation, Victor enters the room where his creature lays, but he is horrified by the creature’s appearance and abandons him, “fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which [he] had given life” (19). Victor’s first negligence of the creature leaves the creature to fend for itself without any parental guidance or leadership. The creature doesn’t acquire any knowledge of the world around him, which he expresses when recounting the first few days of his life to Victor. Once the creature adjusts to his senses and new surroundings, the creature comes across a cottage where he observes a family working together to provide for one another. It is at the cottage where the creature develops respect for humans and is eager to get to know them. However, when the creature finally stirs up the courage to talk to the family, the family is horrified by him and chases him out of the cottage, turning the creature away with “disgust and loathing” (122). Originally, the creature exhibits good intentions with the family,