Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein at 19. How could such a young girl write about things so horrible?
We could look towards Locke's essays as thought on how children are formed. It is said if you bring up children properly you will have a better world. Yet, Day decides he won't teach his children anything... let them decide for themselves. Let them stick their hands in fire and get burned. "On Prejudices" mentions giving children something to go on: children tear their toys apart to see how they work. Still, Godwin makes mention that the peasants grew up watching aristocrats, and thus learned the nature of killing and implemented it into the revolution.
So are we all narcissists because of our parents' cultivation of us, our supposed progressive upbringing? Neglect from his parent, provokes the monster's atrocities. All the monster knows is violence. Nature vs. Nurture comes into play here. The monster is so impressionable for he has no one to teach him right from wrong. He simply goes from experience. But surely this monster knows that murder was wrong, as clearly he put the picture in Justine's pocket to frame her of such an atrocity.
Do parents sometimes raise their children in a certain way, so as to prove their superior parenting skills? "My child is better than yours!" Look how many sports he plays, instruments he commands, grades he maintains. Could there be any relationship between kids acting in way that is deemed 'inappropriate' by their parents (in order to prove, to the parents, that they refuse to be that which the adults want so much and seem only to love the child for -instead of loving them for who already are) and the monster's actions upon poor murdered William. When we look closer though, we see not an initial desire to kill William, but instead an attempt to befriend him.
Just as driving cannot be taught in a test- you learn the basics but truly acquiring road skills comes only from experience on the road: navigating disasters, avoiding obstacles, gaining knowledge: however, parenting can not be learned any other way than being one. There is no great rule-book, you simply try your best and pick it up over time. Knowledge is gained eventually and only through your initial set of values and personal convictions can you hope to even come through as a decent parent, from those ignorant beginnings at the birth of the child.
So are we all narcissists because of our parents' cultivation of us, our supposed progressive upbringing? Neglect from his parent, provokes the monster's atrocities. All the monster knows is violence. Nature vs. Nurture comes into play here. The monster is so impressionable for he has no one to teach him right from wrong. He simply goes from experience. But surely this monster knows that murder was wrong, as clearly he put the picture in Justine's pocket to frame her of such an atrocity.
Do parents sometimes raise their children in a certain way, so as to prove their superior parenting skills? "My child is better than yours!" Look how many sports he plays, instruments he commands, grades he maintains. Could there be any relationship between kids acting in way that is deemed 'inappropriate' by their parents (in order to prove, to the parents, that they refuse to be that which the adults want so much and seem only to love the child for -instead of loving them for who already are) and the monster's actions upon poor murdered William. When we look closer though, we see not an initial desire to kill William, but instead an attempt to befriend him.
Just as driving cannot be taught in a test- you learn the basics but truly acquiring road skills comes only from experience on the road: navigating disasters, avoiding obstacles, gaining knowledge: however, parenting can not be learned any other way than being one. There is no great rule-book, you simply try your best and pick it up over time. Knowledge is gained eventually and only through your initial set of values and personal convictions can you hope to even come through as a decent parent, from those ignorant beginnings at the birth of the child.
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