Frankenstein Mature Essay

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When growing up, life begins to change and obstacles appear from left to right. A part of growing up is to face responsibilities that challenge you day to day. In order to own up to one’s responsibilities, they must mature with age. For one to be truly mature, they have to accept their responsibilities before they can be fully mature. A lot of people in our world and in the book Frankenstein, are too immature to accept their responsibilities. Whether that responsibility has to do with work, school, or family, it takes time to become someone who owns up to what they have done. I believe that if you are mature enough, you should be able to accept what you have done and why you have done it. A lot of people that are immature, just ignore what …show more content…

Being that Victor was the creator of the creature, Victor was responsible for everything that he does and Victor was not ready for what the creature is going to do. He did not want anything to do with the monster and he was scared. “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.”(Shelley pg 254). This quote shows how the creature feels about himself because Frankenstein never showed love for the creature and was never a father to him. “No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.”(Shelley pg 58). Even though Victor had created this monster that is roaming around town and scaring other people Victor does not want to take responsibility for the creature and that is why he is immature. Victor also ran away in fear of what he created he thinks it's ugly and scary and that's why he runs away from it. “...but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”(Shelley pg 62). He thought what he was creating was going to show science how smart he is and that he can play God. After the monster is created, he decides to abandon it, and have the creature live on his own Victor goes home and acts like nothing happened. In the back of Victor's mind everyday he fears what the monster might do to him or his family. The creature just wanted to take …show more content…

One example, is parents leaving their children somewhere, someone else can find them like on the side of the street. If someone gets pregnant they have to take responsibility for their kid and not just know that they can give it away because they don’t want to take care of it. A kid is a lot of work and money and not everyone will always be ready for one, but they still should take responsibilities for their kids and not just leave them somewhere on the streets. There are many options for a parent where they can put their kids and they can still be in the child’s life in the future if the parents are not ready right

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