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Question: What assumptions do you have about parenting? Is Victor the creature’s parent? Why or why not? If so, does he live up to his responsibilities? If not, what word would you use to describe his relationship to his creature, and what are his responsibilities?

Writer1

My assumptions is parenting is the shared responsibility of two people bringing a child into the world to share all of your happiness and love with. It is the parent’s responsibility and actions to develop the child into a person that can function in society and bring joy and love to others. In parenting you cannot be selfish; you need to make the raising of your child the number one priority. Although Victor is not the biological parent, the creature believes Victor to be a parental figure. The creature looks to Victor for love and acceptance and guidance. Victor consciously brings the creature to life without taking on any responsibilities because the creature did not live up to his expectations. Victor’s childhood was a perfect situation where his parents made him their center of joy and thought of him as a gift even with his anger issues so he is aware of what parent’s responsibilities are. Instead of taking responsibility for the creature and his needs Victor loathes him because he is not what he envisioned in his experiment. I believe that Victor never thought of the creature as his child, but an experiment with selfish connotations. Victor despises and wishes the creature dead and blames everything that bad happens on the creature. The creature only wants for Victor to give him love and affection and to make him happy and feels he is owed that. It is only during a stand-off with the creature with the threat of destroying all that Victor loves that Victor felt duty to the creature to listen to what he had to say before he condemned him of killing his brother.

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Shelley, M. (1994). Frankenstein. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.

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Writer2

From what I have heard about parenting, it is an enjoyable, nerve-racking, and time consuming experience. I do not have children of my own, so I can not tell from first hand experience. In my belief Victor is the creatures parent. Victor had created the creature with his own two hands, and had help in creating of this creature. He had taken all the time he had to build the creature to be his own. He, however, did loose the creature which is a nightmare to most parent's if they had lost their own child. Victor did not care for the loss of the creature; yet upon knowing that the creature did indeed kill his brother, he went out to seek his creation. Victor did not want to spill the beans that his own child had killed his brother. Most parent's would not, in disgust, plead that their child had done such a crime. Most parent's if their child killed or did a crime decline to testify against their child, since they themselves could be looked at negatively. Victor did feel that it was his fault that a crime committed by his creation had caused his brothers death. If Victor did not feel a close connection to the creature, he would have not had felt that the crime was of his own fault.  

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