Wednesday, February 25, 2009

An Essential Bond Exists between Mother and Child



Like every Cinderella tale, we have an ideal circumstance that acts like a model of love and lifestyles. From the standards that result from this tale, we notice a current and abusive ideology that occupies the mind frame of the influential. Frankenstein serves as a Monster tale, one that exhibits the black side of fairytales, that represents not a model to look at but a model to be repulsed by.
When reading Frankenstein's monster's tale, we see the image of a child. He is experiencing the world for the first time, feeling emotions that he does not understand. He learned that you can't stick your hand in a pit of fire, for it will hurt. He witnessed the change between light and dark, sun and moon. But there is something wrong with this picture: we have a creature perceiving things the way they are presented and without guidance. What does that tell us readers? This entire experience by the monster represents the importance of parenthood. Though seeming innocent enough, he goes into stranger's houses and eats their bread, cheese, and drinks their wine--he does not know that that is stealing and wrong, and he will not know that unless told. There are many instances where this novel represents human nature, such as the desire to be renown, the fear of being inadequate and the hesitation of losing status. But from this point on, i believe the novel's purpose is to reflect the bond between child and mother. It serves as a model to warn us that if we neglect our young impressionable minds, the result would be one like Frankenstein's monster, one who ends up killing to get his way. Is he wrong to kill, when no one told him that that was not OK? It is through observation that the monster begins to notice the kind bond between people when he looks at the family in the cottage, but the treatment that he got from them and everyone else molded the way the monster felt, thought, and reacted. Violence began to shape him, and there was nothing to prevent that, to show the monster acts of kindness and humanity. He is a product of his environment, and that statement in itself is what us readers must soak in, to avoid creating beings of violent tendencies.

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