Dysfunctional Parent-Child Relationships
· Fannie’s father—alcoholic
· Fannie’s mother—favoritism for youngest daughter
· Fannie’s surrogate father—Sir Thomas
· Fannie’s surrogate mothers (2)
· Wordsworth’s “Lucy Gray”
· Victor Frankenstein & father
· Waltons & parents
· Frankenstein & monster
Substance abuse, favoritism, neglect, verbal/emotional abuse, idleness, enforced servitude,
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Postpartum depression for Dr. Frankenstein?
Frankenstein: relationship/incompatibility of pursuit of knowledge and responsibility
- creature NOT monster -- product of environment and bad/lack of nurturing
- NO NAME!!
- has become monster in pop culture:
- rendered silent (power to speak in novel brings logic, but also pre-meditated crimes & reasonable cause/motivation, gives the ability to lie)
- recipient of letters remains silent. Elizabeth (mother of Dr. F) is silence
- monster is nearly equivalent to child soldier
- education's role (Walton V. Victor V. monster...structured differently if at all?)
- "eloquent liars and justifiers"
- Rejection of Religion (Frankenstein)
- "Holy Thursday", "The Lamb", "Garden of Love", "The Shepherd" -- critical of organized religion
- "Mont Blanc", "Tintern Abbey", "Kubla Khan" -- Nature IS religion
- "Intimations Ode" -- mourns loss of connection to divinity over time. Hints of return to Christianity
- Examine link to Plato's Phaedrus (two horses metaphor)
- Industrialism detrimental to nature
- Industrialism harms parent-child relationship
- Church and government go against nature, organizing/privatizing property
- Society's influence on parenting (Science is not always good for mankind -- Frankenstein)
