Frankenstein Child Neglect Essay

Childhood Neglect: Frankenstein’s Greatest Enemy Children who are neglected suffer tremendous health issues during their prime development years. As a result of neglect, an innocent child is made prone to issues such as uncontrollable anger and a lack of remorse. The bond between a child and the parents is a very important piece in the development of a child. If there is not a strong connection between the two, then the child will have serious problems later on in life. Unfortunately for the monster Victor Frankenstein created, he suffered the same fate as a neglected child. His negative and aggressive attitude is not his fault, but rather the fault of Victor for failing as a parent. The repercussions stemming from the lack of an established …show more content…
One of these problems being the ability to love another person. With love being arguably the most important part of human existence, the brain being altered to be unable to of loving other people, or themselves for that matter, is a disturbing result of neglection. These children are also unable to share, and will likely throw a temper tantrum when confronted by another child. Without proper discipline, this type of behavior will lead the child into a life of trouble, starting with school. Neglected children feel no sense of remorse, so their actions will cause them to receive multiple detentions or suspensions throughout their school days. Attendance to school will also be a problem, because these children did not develop a sense of responsibility. In order to succeed in school, children need support to help them do things such as problem solve and critically think. Since neglected children do not develop the ability to trust other people and cannot work well with other people, they are unable to maximize their potentials in the classroom. Without a proper education, neglected children are restricted from advancing in life and are unable to work high-tier jobs. This limitation being put on innocent children because of parents’ inability to raise their children is not beneficial to society, resulting in the advancement of society as a whole plateauing. Since Victor Frankenstein neglected to help aid the monster along in his developmental stage following his “birth”, the monster suffered tremendously with education. He was forced to learn history and language by his own, unconventional means. The monster also was unable to love, and acted out on impulses due to his inability to control his anger, which is the final problem resulting from childhood