Frankenstein: Childhood And Adolescence

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Childhood and adolescence is different for everyone. From a positive experience to a negative one, or even somewhere in between, that experience shapes an individual’s personality and life choices as an adult. In the novel, “Frankenstein”, childhood is a recurring topic throughout the story arc. This topic gives the reader insight into why the characters have grown up to be the way they are. Just like in our own lives, the characters in the story may have had similar factors in their upbringings, but no one had the same exact reaction to those factors.

Victor Frankenstein is one such character whose childhood and adolescent stages were shown to greatly affect his adulthood. As a child, he is known to love learning and tells Robert Walton

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