Victor As The True Villain In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Victor is the true villain of the story. Based off of his creature 's looks, he was disgusted and left him all on his own. The creation wasn 't nurtured and "raised" to act morally so he was forced to teach himself everything. Although it wasn 't right for the monster to blame all of his decisions on Victor, he was right about the fact that he deserved to be nurtured and treated humanely and taught how to live in the real world. Plus, Victor went back on his word when it came to creating the monster a mate.
2. Shelley wants us to realize as readers that us humans are the true monsters. Humans are judgemental and we don 't accept change or anything different into our lives. Because of our level of closed- mindedness, we choose to live in fear
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Nature refers to being born with certain genes and acting a certain way cause we are coded to act as such. Nurture refers to people acting a certain way because they were trained to be that way or their experiences shape who they are as people. Regardless, both affect how a person would act. Nurture matters more though because we learn from watching how others act and what they tell us to believe from the time we are young. After being told repeatedly to act a certain way, regardless of how our genes tell us to act, we 'll do as we 're told because it is being drilled into our heads to act that way instead.
10. People who live their lives with healthy social relationships tend to be happier and live longer than those who have poor or toxic social relationships. It is important to show love to others because you never know what they 're going through and the love and affection they recieve from you may be the only good thing they 're receiving in their life. You never know what somehow has going on in their lives until you 're living first-hand what they endure. It is only right to spread the love as well. If there was more love, there would be less hatred meaning less hostility within our
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Our ideas of what we deem as 'good ' and what we deem as 'bad ' all comes from what we 're taught when we 're younger. These ideals are based on what is morally and ethically correct. To qualify as a 'good person ', you 'd have to take others ' emotions into consideration and you 'd have to be able to show sympathy/empathy towards those people as well. A 'bad person ' may not take into consideration others or only worry about their own and are most likely willing to manipulate others. There are a few instances where good could be bad. You could be overhelping and overstepping your boundaries in which you are now making it bad for that person and it becomes a bad situation overall. Another issue could be lying to help someone feel better being good in one instance but in another it 's bad because you didn 't think about the person really needing the

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