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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Text Rendering. Nature vs. Nurture.

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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  1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Text Rendering

  2. Nature vs. Nurture • Victor Frankenstein relates his childhood, “ [My parents] seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me. My mother’s tender caresses and my father’s smile of benevolent pleasure regarding me are my first recollections…I was…their child…whom to bring up good, and whose futute lot it was in their hands” (19).

  3. Nature vs. Nurture The Creation laments, “I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king if thou wilt also perform thy art, the which thou owest me” (81). The Creation explains, “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous” (82). The Creation questions, “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses” (101).

  4. Hierarchy of Needs The Creation tells of his struggle to survive, “I found an asylum from the snow and rain…and lay down happy to have found a shelter from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man” (88). The Creation explains, “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous” (82).

  5. Hierarchy of Needs The Creation questions, “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses” (101). The Creation demands Frankenstein to create a companion, “ I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me” (123).

  6. Society’s Views The Creation explains, “If the multitude of mankind knew of my existence, they would do as you do, and arm themselves for my destruction. Shall I not then hate them who abhor me? I will keep no terms with my enemies. I am miserable, and they shall share my wretchedness” (82).

  7. Society’s Views The Creation describes, “I was endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man” (101).

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