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Introduction Hook: Compare my dad to Victor. Thesis:Through the incompetence of a myriad of single fathers in Frankenstein, Shelley proves that the male is a catastrophe in the art of parenthood and is ultimately incapable of--or even destructive to--raising a child. Pre-body: What has Shelley against fathers? Now, where do we start... Shelley’s history with fathers. Shelley had a single father(what a surprise!) Shelley’s husband was not the greatest father!(another surprise!) Body 1: What in the world is wrong with fathers? Just about everything(at least in Geneva) Fathers are irresponsible. Beauford’s leaving his daughter to rot. Victor’s abandoning his child. Elizabeth’s father marries and abandons. Fathers lack heart. The Turk abandons both Felix and his daughter. Victor does not care for his creation. Victor’s Father does not let his son’s pains or curiosity be understood. Fathers have half of a brain and are always so late! Victor’s Father’s late realization. Victor realizes the consequences of his actions way too late. Body 2: What makes mothers any better? Mothers are responsible. Justine takes responsibility for William who isn’t even her son. Mothers have heart. Caroline takes in Elizabeth. Caroline cares for Elizabeth even though she is sick. Mothers are wise(but just quick to die). Caroline knows how to handle her children. Body 3: Isn’t that a little overdoing it? My dad wasn’t like that! Well, sure he was. Top 3 Biblical fathers who need some mothers. 3. Lot and his two daughters. 2. Job and his family destruction. 1. God himself and his son Jesus! The Modern Prometheus--there’s a reason why she named it that! The meat fraud that gets Zeus mad. Humans have to save Prometheus in the end. Most fathers in most current novels or shows have Victoricious characteristics. Homer Simpson. Mary Shelley’s family. Conclusion: So what? Is she telling us men to go kick ourselves? DeLacey’s characteristics. Justine’s mother’s failure as a mother. Magistrate’s care like a mother towards Victor. She is telling us that monster like Frankenstein is born from ill treatment and lack of care. Feminize fathers. Long live mothers.

I went home and thanked my dad for not being a Victor Frankenstein of a father on the night I finished reading the novel by Mary Shelley. But after he scoffed at my gratitude and told me to bring him the remote controller, I thought, “Hm, my daddy isn’t the most compassionate person around.” Loves to my dad, but actually, he’s got a bit of that Victoricious spice in him--in fact most fathers do. Well then, why did I not end up blaming my dad for all the blunders of my life and murder each and every relative that my father has? According to Shelley, it’s because I have a mother. Yes, the thin line between being a docile hope of a parent and an internationally abhorred monster(if you will) lies upon the power of the mother. To a growing child, dads are not much more than sperm donors in Shelley’s world. In case you haven’t noticed, all parents in Frankenstein are single fathers, and, in due time, their children end up jailed, insane, a monster, and/or dead in not so pretty ways. Through the incompetence of a myriad of single fathers in Frankenstein, Shelley proves that the male is a catastrophe in the art of parenthood and is ultimately incapable of--or even destructive to--raising a child. But before anything else, let us uncover what this 19 year old naivete of an author has against fathers. After she loses her mother due to puerperal fever from her birth, Shelley suffers severely from the inconsiderate nature of her father, eventually running away from home at the age of 16 with a contemporary writer Percy Shelley. Now this boy scout(who had a wife by the way) gets Mary pregnant and, being married to another woman and all, largely neglects his soon-to-be newborn. Then when little Mary loses her child during labor, she had some(two to be exact)men to blame for her heartache. Those damned daemons in the name of fathers ruined not only her but her precious baby as well. Because she is a 19 year old naivete Shelley takes to heart and expresses all the pains she has experienced from irresponsible dads. Two generations of victims of improper fathering: thats plenty reason for the loud message titled Frankenstein.