Dr. Frankenstein failed to be the Mother that his monster needed. Motherhood befalls those who birth a child. Whether they want it is another idea, but regardless of their wants they have created a new being that they usually feel the instinctual need to nurture. This instinct is supposedly ingrained in all Mothers, but their instinct only follows one rule: keep the created being alive until it “grows up”.
The means used by Mothers to keep their children alive to adulthood have great variance that is influenced by a number of factors. Some, such as societal normalcy or their own experiences with being raised by their Mothers, are outside influences that are outside of the control of the Mother, whereas personal parenting methods are often …show more content…
Shelly’s mother died when she gave birth to Shelly, so she was raised by her father. Later on Shelly was pregnant herself, but two miscarriages and an infant death had a significant negative effect on her ideas of being a Mother and the world in general. Only one of her children lived to adulthood. With all of Shelly’s personal experiences with the idea of Mothers it was inevitable that she would incorporate those ideas into her novel, and she did through showing that Frankenstein wasn’t his creature’s father, he was his Mother. Shelly implies that the creation of life is a pursuit for women and when men meddle in these “foreign” affairs they cannot control …show more content…
Frankenstein? It would not have mattered under any circumstances as Victor did not have the capacity to be a Mother nor the books or a teacher to teach him how to be one. Carrie’s maternal grandparents did not set an example for Carrie’s mother as well as Carrie’s grandfather was killed in a gun fight and Carrie’s grandmother abandoned her mother when was a child. Carrie’s mother became involved with a very strict cult-like fundamentalist church group which made Carrie’s mother insane. Carrie’s mother did not have a Mother in her life so she also did not have the capacity to be a mother like Victor. In fact, if the creature and Carrie did not have their incompetent Mothers they probably would not have become
The means used by Mothers to keep their children alive to adulthood have great variance that is influenced by a number of factors. Some, such as societal normalcy or their own experiences with being raised by their Mothers, are outside influences that are outside of the control of the Mother, whereas personal parenting methods are often …show more content…
Shelly’s mother died when she gave birth to Shelly, so she was raised by her father. Later on Shelly was pregnant herself, but two miscarriages and an infant death had a significant negative effect on her ideas of being a Mother and the world in general. Only one of her children lived to adulthood. With all of Shelly’s personal experiences with the idea of Mothers it was inevitable that she would incorporate those ideas into her novel, and she did through showing that Frankenstein wasn’t his creature’s father, he was his Mother. Shelly implies that the creation of life is a pursuit for women and when men meddle in these “foreign” affairs they cannot control …show more content…
Frankenstein? It would not have mattered under any circumstances as Victor did not have the capacity to be a Mother nor the books or a teacher to teach him how to be one. Carrie’s maternal grandparents did not set an example for Carrie’s mother as well as Carrie’s grandfather was killed in a gun fight and Carrie’s grandmother abandoned her mother when was a child. Carrie’s mother became involved with a very strict cult-like fundamentalist church group which made Carrie’s mother insane. Carrie’s mother did not have a Mother in her life so she also did not have the capacity to be a mother like Victor. In fact, if the creature and Carrie did not have their incompetent Mothers they probably would not have become