Nature Vs Nurture Essay

Personalities Form and its Ability to Change From the minute we are born we are told what we are supposed to do and what is right or wrong. Sometimes it is our parents who tell us and sometimes its the society we live in. We are always told who we are, then we hit our teenage rebellion years and we try to rebel against what society and our parents tell us to do, but our we really changing who we are? The answer is no. People 's formative years strongly dictate who they become but society can further shape them as they age. The debate on what forms our personalities: Nature versus Nurture. Are we who we are by our genes and our genetic makeup or by how our parents raised us? Both of these strongly influence who it is we become and what traits we end up with. If it were that people

A study that has come up because of the nature vs nurture debate is the twin study, one of which involved the "Jim Twins" who were separated at birth through adoption and lived almost identical lives. They both grew up in Ohio, had childhood dogs named Toy, were married twice once to women named Linda and then to women named Betty, and were both sheriffs in their respective Police departments. That is not all but they had nearly the same results in personality tests as well as brain wave scanners. Although the two men grew up separately they shared very similar lives showing how nature was more of an impact than nurture. This shows how we are nurtured has little impact on our lives in this specific scenario; it is our nature and our genetic makeup that really dictates who we are and what we will do in the future. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, a similar view is shared. Victor was brought up in the best childhood and even states "No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself" (19) and "My mother 's tender caresses and my father 's tender