Adolescence Depicted In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

“Perhaps the world progress not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery,” says Julian Barnes. Within the story Frankenstein, the author, Mary Shelley, portrays Victor Frankenstein as adolescence, seeking to find the thrill in creating life with his own hands while in another sense, the creature acts as an adolescence fighting for the attention of its father. The characters’ actions in the book almost correlate to Mary Shelley’s life. Mary Shelley was no ordinary 19 year old teen. Born into a family of romantic poets, Shelley already had an idea of what her life would consist of. She started off studying her parent’s work, later falling into Gothic novels. In 1814, she started a scandalous relationship

In 1818, the couple left Britain for Italy, where she had another two miscarriages, but she did not give up there. She then gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. A few years later, another traumatic death happened. It was her husband. He drowned when sailing his boat in a very chaotic storm. A year later, she then returned to Great Britain with the goal of properly raising her son; however, she sadly failed at so because she died by illness of a brain tumor. Even though it is not explicitly written, the book, Frankenstein, has a lot to do with how Mary Shelley portrays her life. The Creature, Victor Frankenstein, and Mary Shelley all have characteristics of one another and many of the events that happened in her life are more vividly stressed in her gothic novel. In the theories of language and acquisitions, is it reasonable to believe that the creature could learn to speak by listening to others and reading without any real human interaction, that Victor was solely responsible for the Creature’s actions, and that this is a story of

For starters, human babies are able to interpret what their parents are trying to disseminate with them even though the baby is not able to speak. In an article, Paul C. Holinger M.D., says, (2012) “During infancy, the baby and caretakers communicate through facial expressions and gestures and sounds…” In the early stages of childhood, kids are not really cognizant of what their parents are telling them; however, the tone in which the baby's parents say something can trigger a child’s sense on whether it is good or bad. For example, when a parent rejects their baby's request, the baby is aware that it is not getting what it wants, resulting in the baby pouting or crying. The baby knows that it is not going to get what it want because it can hear the tone in the voice change once the parents say no to the request. In another sense, if the parents approach the baby smiling and making googly eyes, the baby is aware and receptive of the love and affection given by the parents. Furthermore, not only can babies comprehend human language without speaking it animals can as well. In an online article, Simon Plant/Corbis explains, (2015) “It turns out that people who talk to their dogs may be onto something. Studies show that the average dog can understand about 165 different words, in some cases more if you make a point of training them… Posture, context, and daily