People who are parents are supposed to teach lessons and be role models for their children. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley there is an emphasis on the topic of parenting. Parents are supposed to be people their children should emulate. Mary Shelley has shown examples of bad parents by introducing parental figures that do not give nor receive respect while also being untrustworthy and oblivious. The parents that are introduced in this novel are not to be trusted as they do not help but instead they do harm. While learning about Elizabeth Lavenza’s background it is shown that her mother had died while giving birth to her. Her father on the other hand abandoned her and “exerted himself to obtain the liberty of his country” (36). Elizabeth
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The creation had been eavesdropping on the DeLacey family. At one point a woman named Safie had come to the DeLacey family and taken refuge with them. She was scared that she would be “immured within the walls of a harem” (127) by her father. Her fear that her father will send her to harem characterizes Safie’s father as a wicked and untrustworthy person. Safie’s father had escaped to France, while there he had been captured and put in jail. Felix DeLacey happens upon her father and offers to help him escape. For Felix’s help in escaping Safie’s father offer her as payment. Her father is so cruel that he would use his own daughter as payment just to save his own life; in addition to that he had planned “take his daughter with him when he departed” (128) therefore breaking his agreement with Felix. Shelley uses Safie’s father to illustrate a faulty Aristotelian appeal to logos; not only did he promise his daughter the Felix, he then broke that same promise. After the interaction between Victor and his creation, Victor had been staying close to Henry Clerval. He was not leaving his side in order to “protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer” (167). Even …show more content…
At the time Victor was about five, Caroline and Alphonse had traveled with him to Italy. In Italy, Caroline had visited the cottages of the poor. In one cottage, out of five children, Victor’s mother Caroline had gained interest in a young girl. That girl was Elizabeth, she had caught Caroline’s attention due to her looks; she is described as “a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features” (36). Caroline is oblivious to the lesson that she is teaching Victor. The lesson that Victor is learning is the lesson to love things that are beautiful. Mary Shelley uses this lesson to foreshadow the ways that Victor will interact with other characters later on in his life. Justine is accused of the murder of William Frankenstein. She eventually confesses and once she does confess she is put in jail and later on executed. After the judges had determined that she was guilty and that she will be sentenced to death, Victor leaves the room and says that “The tortures of the accused did not equal mine” (86). Victor is saying that his problems are more important that Justine’s. The fact that Victor exclaims this characterizes him as ignorant and egotistical. He thinks that at that given moment his problems are more important than those of Justine, the person who is about to die. After Justine’s death, Victor and his family go up into the mountainous area. Victor goes further up to clear his mind
The creation had been eavesdropping on the DeLacey family. At one point a woman named Safie had come to the DeLacey family and taken refuge with them. She was scared that she would be “immured within the walls of a harem” (127) by her father. Her fear that her father will send her to harem characterizes Safie’s father as a wicked and untrustworthy person. Safie’s father had escaped to France, while there he had been captured and put in jail. Felix DeLacey happens upon her father and offers to help him escape. For Felix’s help in escaping Safie’s father offer her as payment. Her father is so cruel that he would use his own daughter as payment just to save his own life; in addition to that he had planned “take his daughter with him when he departed” (128) therefore breaking his agreement with Felix. Shelley uses Safie’s father to illustrate a faulty Aristotelian appeal to logos; not only did he promise his daughter the Felix, he then broke that same promise. After the interaction between Victor and his creation, Victor had been staying close to Henry Clerval. He was not leaving his side in order to “protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer” (167). Even …show more content…
At the time Victor was about five, Caroline and Alphonse had traveled with him to Italy. In Italy, Caroline had visited the cottages of the poor. In one cottage, out of five children, Victor’s mother Caroline had gained interest in a young girl. That girl was Elizabeth, she had caught Caroline’s attention due to her looks; she is described as “a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features” (36). Caroline is oblivious to the lesson that she is teaching Victor. The lesson that Victor is learning is the lesson to love things that are beautiful. Mary Shelley uses this lesson to foreshadow the ways that Victor will interact with other characters later on in his life. Justine is accused of the murder of William Frankenstein. She eventually confesses and once she does confess she is put in jail and later on executed. After the judges had determined that she was guilty and that she will be sentenced to death, Victor leaves the room and says that “The tortures of the accused did not equal mine” (86). Victor is saying that his problems are more important that Justine’s. The fact that Victor exclaims this characterizes him as ignorant and egotistical. He thinks that at that given moment his problems are more important than those of Justine, the person who is about to die. After Justine’s death, Victor and his family go up into the mountainous area. Victor goes further up to clear his mind