Hearing the miserable cry of an unjustly punished child crying “I never asked to be born!” it's a terrible sound. And in 1823 the first literary work to whine those words was published; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was published in London, England. Even though many people think they know the real story, they don't. A young man named Victor Frankenstein, unable to understand the complexities of giving life, is driven by his lack of knowledge to an intense need to produce it. But when his creation actually appears before him, he is overwhelmed and unable to submit to his son's responsibilities. So instead, he backs off and lets the baby stand on his own two legs. She therefore subjects herself to the cruel blows and beatings of the world, and as a result conceives a broken and battered child due to her lack of care and no one to care for him. In Frankenstein, Shelley uses Victor to act as a symbolic mother who has recklessly given her life, but after seeing the serious repercussions it may have on her future, she miscarries. In turn leaving the abused and beaten creature alone in the world: “a man left to himself from birth would be more of a monster than others” (Shelley 46). Thus showing how the child's condition lies in the responsibility of the parent, who, if he is not provided with the adequate means to grow up in a stable environment, can turn into a monster. Specifically, if Victor had acted as an ideal adult bound by the moral obligation of a creator, the creature would not have become a monster. This is important to Shelley because her mother died giving birth to her. After her death, her father never forgave her; he alienated her as if she were an orphan. Therefore Shelley makes an urgent request to her readers... middle of paper... that the monster, the author has faced the world almost alone. Although side by side, Shelley literally demonstrates that even the slightest guidance from her father made the difference between becoming ordinary or extravagant. In other words, the creature would not have behaved as it did if it had the support of a parent. In conclusion, Shelley's unparalleled perspective makes practical use of the real-life experience of an isolated child in Frankenstein through allusion and symbolism to show the catastrophic consequences when the social contract that chains parents and children together is destroyed. Works Cited Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2007. Print.Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2007. Print.Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. New York, NY: Meuthuen, 1988. Print.