6. What are some of the social attitudes of the villagers who met/heard of Victor? Do you find them problematic? If so, why?
A lot of the villagers and city folk that met or heard of Victor made fun of him, hit him with rocks, would gawk and stare at him as he passed. They would crowd him like he was a zoo animal to stare at instead of treating him with dignity.
I think this was very problematic as far as treating some one as a human being and not just a freak of nature. It could have caused quite a few problems in getting Victor to open up and trust whomever he came in contact with. He was treated as a show instead of given a chance to grow into his lost childhood. It's unfortunate that he spent any time in the deaf and dumb institute with those mean children who hit him and ran him down. It only made his transition that much harder.
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