Frankenstein Nature Vs Nurture

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Human nature is a concept that can be influenced by many factors. Nature can determine some of our traits so as can nurturing. Nature impacts what one is made of- what they are born with. Nurturing is how one is raised. Both ideas are needed to be successful in life. These ideas can be applied to everyone, especially the creature in Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein. In the book, an ugly creature is crafted by a Victor Frankenstein. He soons abandons it upon seeing it’s appearance. From there, the creature is not nurtured. Based on the theory of Nature versus Nurture, the creature, in Frankenstein, will not be successful. Starting off, the creature will not be successful because he is not nurtured. Everything brought into this world needs guidance and love to be successful. Immediately upon birth, the …show more content…

The way the creature looks impacts appears how he is treated. The creature is abandoned by his creator because of the way he looks. People are terrified of it’s appearance. The creature is described as an “ugly wretch” and a “monster” (Shelley 170). As stated before, the creature was also shot at because he looked huge and terrifying. From it’s “birth” the creature starts off as a scary looking monster. Normally people inherited certain traits from their parents. For example, we get our “physical attributes like eye color, hair color, ear size, height, and other traits” from our parents (Mae). The creature gains it’s physical traits from different people. This results in it looking horrifying because the body parts are mix-matched. Because of this combination of lack of nurturing and nature, the creature will not be successful. The creature, in Frankenstein,will be a failure because of the theory of Nature versus Nurture. The concept states how one needs both nurturing and the help of nature to be successful in life. The creature has neither. Therefore, the creature will be nowhere near

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