Frankenstein Child Neglect Essay

Frankenstein and Child Neglect A parent must always be there to care for their child and raise them properly. If not the child can grow up with major psychological deformities like loneliness and severe depression. Victor Frankenstein creates his monster but neglects it to the point of abandonment. The Monster grows with lack of social skills and lack of basic survival aspects and appearance which cause him to look frightening. The monster grows to resent Victor for what he has done to him and begins to commit terrible acts in order to get revenge on victor for his neglect of him. All of the monster’s abandonment issues and psychological troubles stem from Victor’s neglect for the monster. As soon as the monster was created he was looked …show more content…
The monster is abandon early on and because of this tries to integrate into society without the proper nurturing and care that any child needs from their parents. He feels confused about his purpose in life and why he was created. Since he has no one to raise him he must learn about life’s most basic items on his own. He shows childlike curiosity about anything and everything even putting his hand in fire because he does not know that it will cause him pain (Shelley 72). He has to learn how to prepare food using trial and error because no one showed him how to properly do it like a child experimenting in the kitchen. Shelley writes “I tried therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers. I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved” (72-73). Even the basic hut that he encounters is enough to make the monster awestruck. Although the monster is kind and benevolent, because of his frightening features he is shunned from society. …show more content…
Even early on in his youth he was obsessed with life and philosophy. This love for science only grew more when he went to Ingolstadt. He became increasingly antisocial and became a hermit trapped in his room and surrounded by his studies. His science would consume his every thought. Shelley writes “These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour. My cheek had grown pale with study and my person had become emaciated with confinement” (32). His obsession to create life twisted his mind so much that he no longer cared about the being he was trying so desperately to create. He only cared about accomplishing his goal of creation. Victor did not want to care for his creation, he only wanted the praise from the scientific community for his work. All the Monster’s issues stem back to Victor’s obsession to play God. This fixation caused him to be a terrible parent when he could have been a great one. Instead of abandoning the creature he could have raised him as his son and since the creature showed signs of outstanding intellect, Victor even could have raised him to be a great scientist who could have continued his work after he died. Instead Victor chose to run from his creation until the Monster had killed everyone dear to