Frankenstein Bad Parenting

After reading Frankenstein’- a cautionary tale of bad parenting, I would definitely have to agree with Susan Coulter on her stance about why Victor’s parents should have changed their parenting methods. In her review, she talks about why a child needs to be loved, but also showed discipline to show them right from wrong. I thought this was a very important point, but I also think it was important that Victor should have been taught that the study of alchemy was outdated and given what he was actually supposed to be learning. The last point she made that I felt was very important to her argument and made me come to agree with her was the fact that Victor should never have been self-taught. A child needs guidance at a young age to know what …show more content…
I agree with Coulter that a child needs to be disciplined in their lives because they cannot possibly know right from wrong on their own. If a child is just given love, then when they do something wrong they will not realize it is wrong and possibly do it again. In Frankenstein, I think if Victor would have been disciplined, then he would not have been so selfish in his life and the monster would not have been created or if he was created, he would have been taken care of properly. Victor was never taught to be responsible for his actions, so when he did not take responsibility for his creation he felt no remorse until after all of the murders happened. A child must still be loved throughout their lives to grow up with a healthy lifestyle, but when they are shown how to behave that is also showing love to them even if they do not like it, they will thank their parents in the long run. The main reason why I agree with Coulter is because I have experienced many kids in my school that have never been disciplined in their lives and now at eighteen years old they have no responsibility, respect, or knowledge of what is right and …show more content…
When a child is teaching him or herself to about studies like science they are going to believe everything that one source tells them. Victor should have been taught about more than one particular field to broaden his sense of knowledge, so he could then decide which one he thought was correct. Coulter said in her review that a child can be self-taught, but they need to be supervised in the process, so like I said before, they do not learn knowledge in too narrow of a field (Coulter). The creature was also self-taught in the first part of his life because he had no one to teach him about life since he was rejected by everyone. He learned about evil from the cottager reading non-fictional stories about battles in the past, so he had a person somewhat teaching him in a way, but he had to understand what was taking place in them his own way and make is own ideas about how to react to them. If he would have had guidance in his early days of life I do not think he would have turned out the way he did. I agree with Coulter because she gives us multiple examples of why a child needs guidance while learning and how it could be detrimental to go off on their own why studying different material. I think if Victor’s father would have taught him or given him a variance of different books to read, he would not have been so determined to prove