Mary Shelley
The theme of nature versus nurture was evident all throughout the novel. As opposing characters, Frankenstein takes the nature theory, while the creature resembles the nurture theory. From the moment he formed the creature, Victor believed he was horrible and disgusting. When the creature asked for a mate, Victor thought that she would be just as terrible and gruesome by nature. "She might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate, and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness," (Shelley, page 120). This displays the nature theory because the creature seemed inherently evil. The other side is the nurture theory, which I happen to favor over nature. The creature had no one to care for him as a child, so he turned mean and too aggressive. When the creature is trying to convince Victor to make him a mate, the claims that he "had feelings of affection, and they were required by destation and scorn," (Shelley, page 122). The creature had so much potential to be a good being, but Frankenstein neglected him and did not show him how to behave or love him.
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