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Introduction

This essay is about domestic issues that often arise in our families and have consequential impact to the children, referred as creation in this narrative. Victor and monster are the two characters used to draw a picture of how lack of parenting in a family can adversely affect the children. Most domestic issues usually interrupt other social undertakings whenever they arise. In this narrative, we are talking about the effects of family alienation to proper education to the children. Drawing from the work of Frankenstein, we note a number of things about parenting, scientific ethics, responsibility, or society. Other themes that come out clearly is the theme of love, responsibility, education, among others. CITATION Mar11 l 1033 (Shelley) The monster is used to represent a victimized child who has been misunderstood and mistreated. However, there are two different phases of the monster that come out in the narrative. While some view it as evil, others see it as an important asset and that is why there is a problem when the monster disappears. The learning opportunities also disappear. This essay tries to paint a picture of the importance of having a monster for the classroom and the novel and tries to introduce a system of dealing with alienation through by a way of teaching the monster. Alienation pedagogy sought to interfere with the behaviors that which able the absorptive. The monster is a character used by the narrator to represent a good child who has been denied their right to good parenting. Here, we sympathize with the creation more than the creator since the creation is under deep agony of being left by the parents who are termed as the creator. The creation or the child is more loving, kinder, and even more poetic compared to the creator. We therefore want to spend as more time as possible with the creation.

Discussion

In this narrative, we meet a story of an abandoned boy in the form of a monster. The child is in dire need of his father, because he feels neglected and lacks parental care. It is therefore clear that the writer wants to nurture a theme of responsibility and better parenting in a family setup. Parents’ love is of paramount importance for the success of the destiny of the children. CITATION Mel10 l 1033 (Bissonette)In this narrative, the monster is used to represent all children in the society who are created by the parents, yet receive little or no attention from them as far as parenting is concerned. Some sort of irresponsible society is portrayed by Victor, another character seen to accurately fit in the position of the monster. Just like this monster suffers the agony of parentless, so does Victor. Just like Frankenstein experiences challenges to teach the monster, so do the abandoned children feel hard to absorb. However, two approaches come out of this discussion. In another perspective, some analysts have a mixed sense that they see Victor as someone who has grown under full cover and fatherly love of the parents. CITATION Zim03 l 1033 (Zimmerman)Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert view the life of Victor as that of Adam in the Garden of Eden. Just like Adam was, he is fully sheltered by the benevolent creator. For Christopher Small, Victor is brought up in an environment characterized by parental caring, harmony, perfect love, and parental indulgence. He therefore describes Victor’s father as altogether un-authoritarian, wise and benevolent.

Some sort of comparison is hereby drawn, with the monster being seen to represent the destitute children who are just birthed and dropped by their parents, hence end up missing the most important element of parental support in their life. According to Barbara Johnson, this narrative presents us with an ordeal of two antithetical sets of parenting which lead to two sets of parallel lives that of Victor who represent a beloved child in the society, from his two parents and the life of the monster representing a child abandoned by his parents, often referred to as the creator. It is for this reason that the students were wondering who has the power to create, God or scientific means.

The author of this sweet narrative has clearly portrayed the many forms of negative consequences of a failed family and the damage it brings with it, not only to the creation, which is the children for this matter, but also to the society at large. When the nurturant or the motherly parental love is missing, the creation always suffers. The parental support has not only consequential effects to the outer family, but also psychological trauma in the heart of the victim. Everyone witnesses that the monster undergoes deep sorrow of abandonment. This abandonment too results to societal problems in form of conducting social vice like crime in the society in form of murder. The murderousness is seen as a measure of the abandonment. This in turn results to a battering parent producing a battered child who too ends up being a batterer. This narrative just shows a sort of continuous problems that often affect a society due to poor family foundations. Indeed when the family basics are ignored, the expected outcome is poorly brought up children.

It is strongly emphasized the need for parental love in a family set up. Learning among other basic needs of a child are obviously overlooked whenever parental care lacks, as is the case of the monster in this narrative. The facilitating environment greatly helps to shape up the entire life of a child. It is for this reason that it is necessary for an infant to grow in the right relations, and the relations of his parents for this matter. The infant ought to be given enough support to experience the atmosphere of omnipotence, and avoid prematurely abrogating the same, and by offering the outer world with a flexibility which accommodates the creativity of the infant without constraining them to too rigid reality. The author commends that parents help creating a mediating space between the child and the outer environment.

The theme of sympathy and kindness comes out so clearly in this narrative. Victor himself emphasizes the perdurability of his early relationships and tells Walton the people we hung around with especially in our childhood always impart a certain powerful force over our minds. It plainly shows that Victor is nostalgically troubled by the former love he used to be accorded by his loving benevolent. He notes that our childhood companions are aware of our infantine dispositions and though they may be later modified, they can not be eradicated at all. Just like the monster is abandoned by Victor, so is Victor himself left his parents.

The reminiscence of the sweet moment the family used to enjoy triggers a lot of empathy in our hearts. He narrates about how he recollects his father’s benevolent smile of pleasure and his mother’s caresses that was so tender regarding him. He goes farther ahead to demonstrate the extent of family love and bondage that used to exist. He says that he was their idol and their playing, the helpless and the innocent creature that the heaven had bestowed to them as a precious gift. The gift was supposed to be brought up by them and its future lied in their hands. They had the opportunity to safeguard it or even mess up with it, and unfortunately the latter happened. This indicates Victor’s memories of the first love from his parents.

The fullness of the narrative’s preoccupation with kind and sympathetic looking anticipates emphasis from Wannicott’s on the need of the emerging self of the self of the mother. The narrator describes it as a meaningful selfhood sense which is in large extend constructed from the earliest experience of the child, as to what the child can see or recognize. When the baby looks at the baby looks at the mother, what he sees is the image of him self in the eyes of the mother. When the mother looks at the baby, what she also sees in the eyes of the baby is her own image. So, the mother looks at the baby and she sees is exactly related to what she looks there. This tends to draw a picture of parental love in a family institution and how it is precious.

When we continue reading further, we start developing some sort of condemnation for the brutality and crime committed by Victor. Victor shows his benevolent father some title on a page but the father assumes him. Some kind of habit is gradually cropping up in the life of this boy, without the knowledge of his parents. It is so surprising that Victor had committed a number of murder crimes without the knowledge of the father. Needless to say, a responsible parent ought to be caring and fully equipped with the progress of their children. This was not the case with Victor.

There was a lot that the parents were not informed about Victor’s life. At one time, Victor decided to blow up the whistle about some issues in his life experience. He finally decided to tell of his invisible history that characterized. It sounds funny that his biological father was not aware of the cause of his suffering, but was seeking erroneous means to stop the incurable disease. Victor wondered how his own father knew very little about him. It is at this point that Victor openly told his dad that he was the murderer of Justine, William, and Henry. This was such a big blow to the family that the father could not imagine, but treats it as mere assertion. It tells us that at times we live without openness. In a family set up, parents and children ought to be well informed with the affairs of everyone. Openness and transparency is of paramount importance for mutual coexistence in a family institution.

Conclusion

This narrative is all about the building blocks of life in family as an institution. A family is supposed to be characterized by mutual coexistence of love and understanding for one another. Love and parental care is of paramount importance in this institution. When the creator overlooks this, he does it at the expense of the creation whose destiny is affected. We have seen that the destinies of Victor and the monster were completely affected by their lack of parenting. Although their stories are somewhat different, the fact is that they both missed parental care and all that which comes with it- psychological care, mental and even physical security. The narrative has taught us why it is necessary for children to be nurtured in the right way without abandonment. At the sun set of their lives, Victor and the Monster tell similar stories of how they missed parenting. We are told that the reproaches of Victor did echo monster. He laments that no one showed up with a gentle voice of love. Likewise, the monster laments that no father had watched over its infant days, neither did it receive any motherly love, whatsoever.

Work Cited

BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 Bissonette, Melissa Bloom. Teaching the Monster: Frankenstein and Critical Thinking. New York: West Chester University, 2010.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The Deluxe eBook Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2011.

Zimmerman, Lee. Frankenstein, Invisibility, and Nameless Dread. New York: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.