Frankenstein Nature Vs Nurture Essay

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“I am malicious because I am miserable.” (P.124) Nature vs Nurture is prevailed all throughout Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein. Shelley created the creature as if he was a newborn baby and his personality was shaped by the events that had happened in his life. The creature's environment, good or bad, impacted his personality as well as the lack of love, and a combination of isolation and hatred, led the creature to turn towards a path of destruction.
Man by nature judges people and such based upon their appearance. If a person is charming then they will be given more of a chance to show people who they really are. If they are hideous or disfigured, they usually aren't given much of a chance to show their true colors. “Hideous” people are thought of as monsters and are rejected by MANY. People seem to be scared of the unknown and unfamiliar as well as being scared of things they do not really understand. Disfiguration is something that most people cannot look past. As Shelley states in Frankenstein
“His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. …show more content…

If he would have taken care, nurtured and raised his creation properly, there would have been no victims and therefore nothing to take any blame of. It could have been as simple as nurturing him as any other human, with teaching his creation kindness, love and happiness towards others; if only Victor had just given in the time and effort. His creation required love to become kind but because he did not show or give love he is a monster himself. To blame is definitely on Victor for the deaths in his family since he created the creature, but he refuses to take blame. The irony of Victor murdering his own family makes it ludicrous for him to take no blame and place the entire fault on the creature that he totally OBSESSED over to

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