What Is The Lack Of Familial Ties In Frankenstein

Frankenstein’s Monster & The Lack of Familial Ties The Romantic Era inspired detailed expressions of internal feelings and an emphasis on the appreciation of nature. Romantic writers feared the disintegration of human emotion and the relationship between humans and nature. Once the Scientific revolution called for reason and the theorizing of the causes of life, it seemed as if people would become more mechanical and rational rather than sentimental and imaginative. There was in fact, a sweeping fear of dehumanization; nature was not something to fear anymore, and eventually, it was becoming an element that no longer received respect. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley embarks on the literary depictions of the most intense human emotions, both …show more content…
This pains the monster while also enraging him. When once the creature was loving, now he was vengeful and hateful, after a failed attempt at receiving the acceptance from the cottage family. The monster then planned to go after Victor who was to be blamed for his existence. The fact that the monster received his education from the cottage family, granted them the exception of his wrath, which is evident when he does not try to find them and injure them when they flee from the result of their encounter. However unsuccessful was his attempt at receiving their love and acceptance, he still feels a connection to them solely because he learned through them, and they count as parental figures to the …show more content…
Although he had little to no interaction, he could see the love they possessed for each other by their acts of kindness, which separated the cottagers and his creator in his mind. The cottagers were the angel-like humans who provided his indirect education while Victor, his creator, was the devil who deprived him of the love and joy he sought after, and not only created his miserable existence, but also despised him. However, now that the monster understood the difference between the good nature of the cottagers and the unrespectable nature of his creator, he fixes a plan for vengeance against Victor. The cottage family served the purpose of introducing knowledge to the creature and was consequently the same knowledge that became the demise of both, creator and creature. The knowledge that he was an unloved being with a life condemned to isolation, forces Victor’s monster to transition from a loving and sensible creature to a hateful and vengeful creature whose actions resembled his monstrous appearance. In retrospection, the cottage family, essentially, were the “tree of knowledge” to Victor’s monster, who acknowledges himself as “thy adam” who consequently falls into sin at the encounter of such