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Written by isablea gaspar Parenting gone bad Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelly and it has been passed down since 1818. The novels have two main characters that bring out many deep moral and questions to our thoughts. Victor, who is the creator of a creature and the other character, is the creature that is created by Victor. The novel shares a lot of them and one that I see and continue to see in today’s world the responsibility of parenting. In the novel the father is victor then abandons his creation and the son would be the creature. This source explains it more” The duty of a creator to the creature; the dute of love for one's creation, e.g. parent's duty to love, protect, and nurture children.”:(Harris) This is something were Victor Frankenstein lacked on as a parent and this makes his bad parenting skills go bad. The novel starts out with letters being written by Robert Walton who is on a voyage. Roberts Walton comes across a man Victor Frankenstein who tells his story of misery. Victor starts out with a story of his childhood he seems to have had a good childhood he expresses with a “No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence” (Shelly) how fast that changed as he got older. Victor should have kept that in mind if he had a good childhood he should of thought of that when he was trying to create Life on his own. This is why Victor is a deprived father to his own creation and makes him an ignorant parent. As time passed victor is surrounded by family that cared about him, but when his mother dies he plays around with life and attempts to create life on his own. "A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption." (Shelly)This quote shows understanding into Victor's inspiration in creating life. It is very ironic because victor grows up with a loving family and he then abandons his creation when it comes to life. Anyone would think that after giving life to a creature he would care for it he deiced to abandon it; this is the opposite of how he grows up and this just show Victor’s lack of parenting toward his creature. In chapter 10 the monster or Victors child finally comes face to face with his creator and throughout the story Victor refers to him a Devil, and fine. When the monster approaches him Victor call him Devil, the monster expresses hid feeling and he quotes “Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy (your) creature, to whom thou(I) art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life”. A lot of feeling is said through this passage, the Child is expressing his feeling toward his father and in this case the father is Victor. If only Victor accepted his creation and if he would have not abandoned the monster, Victor would have had his family alive. Abandoning the monster was like abandoning a child; the monster continues to tell Victor of how he was alone and how we went off to the woods. He was cold and he had nothing to warm him he got hungry and there was nothing for him to eat. I see this as a newborn trying to survive in the wild, which is what the monster had to go through. He learned by observing the world around him and when he saw a family that had love he wanted that, but when he approached a person for the first time they rejected him and this lead to his hatred against his creator. Victors poor parenting skill made his own child go through a lot on his own, his monster has no one to guide. The monster learned things on his own and one feeling that he learned was loneliness and betrayal on behalf of his creator. He left lonely and he wanted a companion so that he wouldn’t feel left out and when Victor refused the monster got even angrier. Anyone can see that this is a father son relationship. In today’s society their parents that act like victor they reject their creation because of how they act, look, or come out to be. "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?" (Shelly Ch. 16) This is the turning point were the monster can’t take it anymore. The monster hits his breaking point and can’t take any more rejection and ends up hurting his creator by killing his creator family and loved ones. The child, in this case the monster feels rejected and wishes he never existed. Hate and vengeance are feeling that a lot of kids feel when they are feeling detested by their parents or people that brought them to this world. Having a lot of feelings of angered and hatred against a person parent or creator more that likely they will rebel against them and this is what happened in the story. The monster rebelled against his creator and at the end both hurts each other. As parents mistakes happen but sometimes there are ways to fix them but in Victor Frankenstein’s case he refused to listen to his creature and this made things worse for him. These are some reason why Victor Frankenstein is a bad parent in the story and in today’s world we still see parent react their kids because of how they are and sometimes what they look like. There were a lot of sense in the book were Frankenstein could of fixed his mistakes as a parent. Victor just like any other ignorant parent refused to fix his error and this just made things go bad for him. In the book of Frankenstein what happened is that parenting skills that went bad.