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Effects Of Parents In Frankenstein

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The Parental Effect Everyone is influenced by their parents, they influence how we are going to turn out later in life, who we are going to be, and how we will act. “Children are like sponges--they model everything a parent does and incorporate what they see into their own lives.” (Erickson) When a child is young they are still trying to figure out the world and how things work. So in reality, who else would they look up to other than their very own parents? So it only makes sense that kids look up and copy their parents. They are the first people that they see and that they personally get to really know. Now although, some may be influenced by their parents in a good way, others are influenced negatively by not having parents at all. “Children feel an emotional attachment to their parents and feel insecure if this is absent” (Treatment).
A good example of parental neglectance is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein creates his “creature” and abandons him because he fears him. Some may defend Frankenstein, saying he was afraid of what he had done, but abandoning one's creation …show more content…

Now, it may not seem that bad, until it is actually put into the perspective of the abandoned child. While all the other kids are learning life lessons from their actual parents, the abandoned child is learning from whoever their new guardian may be or from other troubled children. When all the other kids take their parents to school for parent day, the abandoned child takes their guardian or nobody. The parents who abandoned the child may have never even thought of how this would affect the kid. They probably never thought of their little boy or girl sitting alone on Bring Your Parent to School Day. They probably never thought of their child looking at their friends parents and wondering why their real parents left them. Those parents probably never batted an eye and just left their

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