Association of ideas (Locke): culture produces these associations; If you have the flu and eat a lot of honey and it makes you sick, you will always associated honey with sickness, and disgust. If you can infiltrate good, humane ideas in children - we will have a better world. What if you brought up your children with nothing, no prejudices? The child, the blank slate, will learn for him/herself and have healthy associations free of corruption. Thomas Day (name?) raised two adoptive children in this fashion, they both grew up schizophrenic .
Do we grow up today as narcissists?
How does the monster represent the philosophy; if we just raised our children properly they would grow up morally? Is monster like a poor child, did Victor reject his child? If you do not teach moral things, than what model/standard of life do you have?Violence becomes a wa
y to get what you want - to get attention. This girl I used to babysit for who is now 15 is very violent. She has brought a knife to school, chased her mother around the house with scissors, and kicked windows out - I definitely see how her upbringing brought her to react in this way, her parents do not not how to deal with her and therefore almost ignore her, which in return makes her act out even more. If she was a blank slate when she came into the world, ther
e must be some sort of outside influences which have shaped her.
In Frankenstein, is there some moral choice on his part to act out in that way? He
did frame Justine, knowing what he did was wrong - therefore by transferring the blame of his act, he was showing that he knew what he did was immoral. What happens if a child must live out their parents wishes, as the monster must live out Victor's dream? It is almost that they must rebel, the parents only loved them for that dream, not really for them. The monster kills William, framing Justine, showing that he is deliberately trying to hurt Victor. His initial desire is not to kill William, but to have a friend. He says that he was good, yet circumstances made him bad. To be a parent, there needs to be a serious effort, a serious choice to bond with the child. How does abortion fit into this?
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