Essay On When Humans Are Born Evil

After watching scary movies about children it makes you wonder if they were like that from the beginning when they were born or if they had some experiences to make them act in the way that would want to hurt someone. This has been a debate throughout history if humans are born evil or if they developed into being evil through traumatic experiences. You are rarely born to be a killer and feel the need at the age of two to go out and kill someone that is not something you come across everyday. “At the other end of the spectrum is the environmentalist … Their basic assumption is that at birth the human mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) and that this is gradually “filled” as a result of experience.” (McLeod) In the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelly the …show more content…
This is a reason why the monster was not evil to begin with the monster did not know that he was ugly all he knew was the humans would run away from him. If everyone ran away from you when they saw you; you would get upset too this is a good reason for a rampage. “Moving into modern psychology, both nature and nurture may promote certain behaviors, but they are not, themselves, the cause. ‘Evil’ may arise from repression of a destructive feeling that eventually eats away at you until you lash out.” (Greene) Being exiled this would be a reason for the monster to lash out because no one would talk to him he was an ugly monster who no one liked. The monster did not choose to be ugly that was the creators fault and this is what turned the monster evil from the beginning. If the creator would have stayed with the monster and did some plastic surgery on him he would have had a better chance of being a part of the