“With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord, that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.” (Shelley 3).
This is the first of many mentions in Frankenstein of the connection and contrast between natural creation, that of mothers and fathers birthing a son or daughter, and Frankenstein artificially creating the monster. This passage states that Victor Frankenstein was treated with love and compassion by his parents, since he was “the being to which they had given life,” much as Frankenstein’s monster is to him—the monster, however, is not shown the same compassion.
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