For years, scientists and psychologists have argued the question: are humans evil by nature or by nurture? When a human is born, they are born with a blank slate, they are not born morally bad or good. The environment and conditions that human is brought up in influences who they will become. Although people can be born with certain altruistic traits, the way and how often that they act upon this is up to them. Personality traits are inherited, however behavior is conditioned. Parental guidance, education, and environment are all factors in how someone controls and acts upon their personality traits and behaviors. If a child is brought up in a negative environment then they are being conditioned to have negative behaviors. In Mary Shelley’s
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As soon as the monster was brought to life, he was greeted with negativity and screaming from its own creator and everyone around him. If a newborn is greeted with these same reactions from its surroundings and its own parents from the moment they are born, it will grow up feeling scared, hurt, and like they are not good enough. The monster felt this as well, and it lead him to become an evil being as his own form of defense and revenge, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?... my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery” (Shelley 16.1). The monster grew tired of all the negativity that surrounds him and he clearly didn’t even want to live with that anymore, so he starts hurting people and taking out his anger and hurt on them. The monster started off being mad at his creator and then proceeded to take it out on others. Feeling hurt could easily lead to revenge, and when that clouds someone’s judgement then they could do serious damage to others just to try and relieve some of that pain and anger. The monster feels hurt throughout his life, and most of it is coming from the neglect from his own
As soon as the monster was brought to life, he was greeted with negativity and screaming from its own creator and everyone around him. If a newborn is greeted with these same reactions from its surroundings and its own parents from the moment they are born, it will grow up feeling scared, hurt, and like they are not good enough. The monster felt this as well, and it lead him to become an evil being as his own form of defense and revenge, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?... my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery” (Shelley 16.1). The monster grew tired of all the negativity that surrounds him and he clearly didn’t even want to live with that anymore, so he starts hurting people and taking out his anger and hurt on them. The monster started off being mad at his creator and then proceeded to take it out on others. Feeling hurt could easily lead to revenge, and when that clouds someone’s judgement then they could do serious damage to others just to try and relieve some of that pain and anger. The monster feels hurt throughout his life, and most of it is coming from the neglect from his own