On an average, according to UNICEF, 353,000 babies are born daily around the world, that makes it about 127,750,000 babies every year. Many of these children are given well lovely homes with parents who love them, but there are others who are abandoned and often sent to orphanages. Some in poorer countries are often left exposed to nature without the love of a parent, without feeling nurture, this being the same scenario in the novel Frankenstein. The story starts out with a curious young Victor. He wants to be god-like and creates the Creature. Victor abandons his creation and the Creature ventures out and lives in the wild till he meets Victor, his creator. The Creature asks Victor to create him a partner and Victor denies and so the creature
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Nathan DeWall. Although the creature is portrayed as “non-human” he, like the other humans, go to seek human interaction. As the creature ventures out he discovers a village, he is in awe, the buildings and the architecture, “How miraculously did this appear” (89)! This shows his lack of knowledge of his environment and his curiosity to learn. He decides to investigate this newfound land. His dreams are soon crushed when “the children shriek…The whole village was roused…” (90) The village was in shocked with his appearance, so they kicked him out. This lash out of the village made him avoid the society and made him wary. In contrast, if he would have been shown acceptance, he would have been more trusting to his surroundings.
As the novel continues, the Creature is more knowledgeable, and he does not want to be alone anymore. He goes find Victor and asks him to make him a partner, so he will not be alone, and he will leave society and be alone with her. He tells Victor, “…if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear…” (126). For a Creature, who was not nurtured or cultured, he naturally seeks which shows how vital love and nurture are to the Creature. He wants a partner so, he can “interchange of those sympathies necessary” for his being (124). In his speech, one sees that he is willing to go so far to have someone he could
Nathan DeWall. Although the creature is portrayed as “non-human” he, like the other humans, go to seek human interaction. As the creature ventures out he discovers a village, he is in awe, the buildings and the architecture, “How miraculously did this appear” (89)! This shows his lack of knowledge of his environment and his curiosity to learn. He decides to investigate this newfound land. His dreams are soon crushed when “the children shriek…The whole village was roused…” (90) The village was in shocked with his appearance, so they kicked him out. This lash out of the village made him avoid the society and made him wary. In contrast, if he would have been shown acceptance, he would have been more trusting to his surroundings.
As the novel continues, the Creature is more knowledgeable, and he does not want to be alone anymore. He goes find Victor and asks him to make him a partner, so he will not be alone, and he will leave society and be alone with her. He tells Victor, “…if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear…” (126). For a Creature, who was not nurtured or cultured, he naturally seeks which shows how vital love and nurture are to the Creature. He wants a partner so, he can “interchange of those sympathies necessary” for his being (124). In his speech, one sees that he is willing to go so far to have someone he could