Post creation parenting.. or lack there of..

When reading Frankenstein in comparison to when I viewed the films there was one major theme that stuck out in my head. That being childbirth/maternity which we did speak in depth about during class which is why I believe they resonated with me so well. On the topic of childbirth and maternity, it was extremely interesting to me in the 2004 film where he did legitimately simulate childbirth in a way, and it was gruesome, intense, stressful, and slightly disgusting as I would imagine real childbirth would be. In the book I felt almost scared and oddly a sense of empowerment. The two were different but although I gathered the same idea from them both. What really spoke to me during this was the crazed reaction of Frankenstein, and how much different things may have turned out had Frankenstein indeed treated the monster like a baby post creation. For since it would seem he did in fact reenact child birth, and then let this creature go basically and do his own thing. Mind boggling really, a good example was from the oldest version of Frankenstein that we watched where after the monster was created he said, “I want to keep him in the dark.”  There is even a scene where the monster is just roaming around and Frankenstein is sitting upstairs relaxing, smoking if I am not mistaken. Anyhow, that spirals into a slew of questions and assumptions as to why and how could things have been different given that he would have treated the monster as a child. It almost felt like since he had accomplished what his end goal was he sort of was trying to take it easy and a lot of the crazed driven attitude that was so present in the first place had faded away. Understandably so I suppose, but even still it was mind blowing to thing, OK I have legitimately created another living breathing being, eh I think I will call it a day and have a smoke. Although, it did anger me, or at least make me more passionate on the fact that I felt his actions prior to creation were ignorant I loved it because it did exactly what maybe Mary Shelley was trying to do. It certainly brought about additional questions, and drama to the situation which to me was nothing short of amazing.