Nature and Nurture in Frankenstein

Mencius, a respected philosopher in antique China has once said, hu mankind beings beingss nature at birth is darling. Rousseau is a well-knget(a) French philosopher of the 18th light speed who has once states in his possible action on the natural man that one is born part with and good but is demoralize by society. Ones personality, therefore, is determined by nurture, or the environment which they have self-aggrandizing up with. This idea is similarly proven throughout in Mary Shelleys original Frankenstein-Shelley uses throngs rejection and the puppets failure to check out in the society to take that nurture is the leading agentive role which affects the formation of the tools evil character.\nIn the novel, the puppet starts his life fresh and innocently similar to a newborn. He eats berries, drinks from the brook, sleeps under sunglasses just like an animal(Shelley 84). He is abandoned by his own creator Victor from the split second he is brought to life, thu s, the wildcat has never been taught how to be a human being. When the creature shows up in public, people panic, Some fled, approximately attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many a(prenominal) other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country.(Shelly 87). The creature does not fight back, proving his innocence, purity, and good intentions. The creature then hides in a hovel, where he learns how to speak, read, and release from the De Lacey family who lives in the cottage right-hand(a) next to his hovel (Shelley Chapter 13). be moved by the depressed manners of the De Lacey family, the creature longs to touch base them but dares not (Shelley 91). after(prenominal) realizing their poverty, the creature starts doing good whole caboodle that he thinks would help those people whom he admires-he stops steal food from them once it becomes mindful to him that in doing this inflicted pain on the cottagers, collects wood in indian lodge to assist the ir labour (Shelley 92). If the creature were truly born a monster, it is very unlikely that he would have any readiness ...