Ignorance In Frankenstein

I am friends with the boogeyman. He lies under my bed. The monster whose mysterious face I never have the pleasure of meeting, the monster who watches me day and night from his safe-haven within my closet. With intense fright surging through my body, I search for him but to no avail. I try to understand his purpose, and the reason why he watches me, but I remain too full of fright to ask.

It begins nine in the years past, I sit on my bed stricken with fear of what hides beneath me, as I shriek for my parents, tears drip down my face, and hairs erect from my limbs. In horror, I hide behind my parents’ baggy pajamas with a hope of having protection from the unknown monster. “Honey, there is nobody in your closet or under the bed. Let mommy and

Ever since the analysis of fear, we come to understand the reason a person shudders at the sight of the darkness under a bed or in a closet, but we do not understand the fearful creature bound to the darkness and how to effectively live alongside him. According to the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, parents need to understand and implement rules within their households to help their children overcome bedtime fears: “Once you understand the nature of your child's fear, it is important not to support or build up these fears . . . These actions tend to make children think you believe in the imagined object as well.” (“Bedtime Fears” 1). Parents make it commonplace to transform their children’s fears into fallacies, otherwise their children might believe the parents believe in them as well; consequently, this means a child can never become friends with their own

In more recent times, African-Americans, Jewish people, and individuals of foreign descent are sources of hate for the countries, such as the United States of America (Smelser 1). By passing on hate to different races, the term scapegoat becomes widely prevalent, as it means: a group that bears the blame, hatred, and suffering of others on themselves, represents the enormous hate towards a group of people. As a single race, humans manage to create multitudinous divides amongst themselves, thus creating emotions such as hate. What we call hate lies within society’s connotation of the word itself. In religions like buddhism, the meager usage of the word is despicable; however, due to ever-changing values, the connotation of the word is lower, but its usage is greater in the same sense. The rational mind of a man serves to keep his emotions in check, but emotions similar to hate defy this realization, in that they control man's rational mind rather than the other way