Frankenstein Nature Vs Nurture Research Paper

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Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, has a nature vs nurture theme. Nature vs nurture is when certain aspects of behavior are made up of either genetic or learned characteristics. Nature would be the genetic inherited characteristic and nurture would be the learned characteristic. The nature vs nurture theme in Frankenstein debates whether the development of the Creature I’d affected more by nature or by nurture. The Creature is affected by nature when he is first created. Victor Frankenstein abandons the Creature after he created it which made the Creature to be evil. Victor Frankenstein states,”Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer!”(Shelley 56). The abandonment, isolation, and hostility