ConnectionThe little girl in the picture is being escorted to school because of the violence that is all around her. The painting is based in the late 1960s when integration was becoming a new idea to most. Blacks and Whites were finally able to go to the same schools and use the same bathrooms and drink from the same water fountains. But whites were outraged and acted out with violence. There were police escorts everywhere to help protect the black children from being harmed. The monster in Frankensein by Mary Shelley also felt this violence towards him. Although he had no real protectors he did have cottagers whom he learned from and felt safe being close to. The monster did not interact with the cottagers in fear of rejection but longed for their acceptance. "What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the nogiht before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching" (98).
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus : With Connections. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1999. Print. "Segregation." Painting. cslacker.com. Web. 1 March. 2013. |