To A Mouse Quote Analysis

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The moral lesson in To a Mouse, by Robert Burns, is to treat others with kindness and respect. Burns writes “broken Nature’s social union”, this line illustrates how someone’s home was ruined. Even though this home was lived in by a mouse, the mouse put in hard work to build safe shelter from the winter. His house is his source of living and without it the mouse is more vulnerable to dangers outside. The farmer was kind enough to understand this concept and felt empathy for the mouse. He felt empathy because the farmer would be upset as well if someone were to ruin something that he built himself. Similarly, the farmer comprehends the concept that his house is equal to the mouse’s house, which Burns expresses when he writes “your poor, earth born companion and fellow mortal”. In addition, the farmer respects the mouse and allows it to eat his crops when he says, “but you may steal”. The farmer realizes the minuscule amount that the mouse needs to live off of, will not hurt the farmers total harvest …show more content…

Dr. Frankenstein created a creature and did not like they way the creature looked, in a effect of this, he abandon the creature. This left the creature to be emotionally traumatized, creating a bad path for the create to go down. If more people were able to understand this concept, there would be less abortions and adoptions. When kids are created and then put it adoptions centers or orphanages, they are more likely go down that same bad path as the creature. The world could be a better place if people did not choose this life for their creation. As a creator, there is a responsibly ro be there for the creature and to take care of them. Mary Shelley set a perspective of what happens when people abandon and neglect their own creation. She teaches us to know the consequences and hopefully can allow the reader to not make the same