Friday, February 4, 2011

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, A Modern Prometheus

Anticipation Guide

1. The key to all emotional healing can be found in nature.
Agree


2. Nature is filled with harsh cruelties.
Agree


3. A person’s priorities should place family before work.
Agree

A family is the most important thing in a person’s life. When we talk about a family we mean parents and children that love each other. Work is the place where people go to make money for themselves, but most importantly for their family. It is beyond my understanding why anyone would put their work before their family. Work is something you have to do, in our society, so as to make the money you need to support your loved ones. A family consists of unique individuals that are irreplaceable. With work things are different. I am not arguing the fact that work is important, but no work in the world is worth losing your family for. Any work, no matter how important it is, can be changed if it is to the expense of member of your family. People change many jobs throughout their lives. So when it comes to a person’s priorities, family should always come before work. Just the assumption of losing a member of your family compared to losing your job clearly shows that no one should even be thinking of reversing the priorities. For the reasons above I certainly agree that it is a person’s priority to place family before work!


4. Enjoying life is more important than persuing fame, glory, and knowledge.

Agree


5. Those born with social and financial advantages have a responsibility for those who are not.
Agree

6. Ignorance is bliss.
Disagree

7. The pursuit of knowledge is a volatile quest.
Agree

8. Someone’s ego (over-inflated sense of self-worth or superiority) will cause a tragic fall.

Agree


9. Children learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults.
Agree


Young children don’t identify what is right and what is wrong. Children do a lot of stuff, good and bad, all the time because they can’t clearly think of what they’re doing. Children at a young age want to learn more about what to do, how to talk, how to behave and the only way to learn that is by observing their surroundings, meaning their parents or other relative adults. Children spend most of their time every day with their parents and other children, but if they want to learn how to behave properly the logical things to do is look at your parents and see how they behave. In short, If the parents of a child don’t behave properly, use proper and intelligent language and be a really good outstanding example for their child to be throughout his/her growth, but instead being exactly the opposite thing, bad behavior, cruel, terrible, inappropriate language, then the child will see that and of course mime it, if that child wants to learn how to behave. Adults are the children source of behavior, the children watch the adults around them and see how they behave because their adults and children think that they know what’s the right behavior to have, so the children mime those adults they see and especially, like I mentioned their parents. I certainly agree that Children learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults. If an adult has really good behavior, then the child will have really good behavior because that is what children do, mimicking adults, it's just their job as they grow.



10. Most people are basically cruel.
Disagree

11. Society makes a person whatever he becomes.
Agree


12. The “disenfranchised man,” who finds himself unable to live within society for whatever reason, is someone for whom we should feel sympathy or reverence.
Agree


13. Rejection and mistreatment can manifest themselves in a person becoming rage-filled.
Agree


14. If a person or an animal is treated with cruelty, he will respond to others in the same way.
Agree


15. Those people we deem “monsters” in today’s society are merely misunderstood.

Disagree