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A 5 page paper which examines the issue of parenting, as presented in the two different time periods. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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world, they are expected to care for them and imbue them with characteristics that are deemed socially and morally acceptable. They are expected to provide love, comfort, shelter, sustenance,
education, guidance and protection. Parenthood was and remains the most difficult of all human tasks, one for which there is no prerequisite. It also remains the most important
role in life. Mary Shelleys parentage is quite impressive, to say the least. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the earliest feminists and her father, William Godwin,
is regarded as one of the first liberal sociologists, who maintained that "the skillful parent is one who knows that evil is not invincible and that it is persons of
narrow and limited views who convince themselves otherwise" (Goodall 19). His daughter seemed to share her fathers views, as evidenced by her Gothic 1816 masterpiece, Frankenstein, in which she
considers the theme of parenting and offers expansive views on child upbringing (Frankenstein: The Novel). The novel asks controversial parenting questions that had never been considered in previous texts,
those that every parent-to-be wrestles with: "What if I do not love my child? What if my child is deformed? Could I wish my own child to die?" (Frankenstein: The
Novel) Frankensteins scientific protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, had, by his own account, an indulgent and privileged childhood (Coulter Frankenstein - A Cautionary Tale of Bad Parenting). His parents were wealthy
and loving, and according to young Victor, "seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them on me" (Shelley 32). His parents
were affectionate and reassuring, possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence" (Shelley 36). However, while they provided him with an abundance of love, they did not give
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