Nature Vs Nurture In Frankenstein

Does someone always end up like their parents? This is the question of the century, people can argue for either side for hours. Through Victor and his creation Shelley's novel Frankenstein helps provide examples of Nature, Nurture, and the hope of changing after one's personality is already formed. People develop their personalities through a factor of both nature and nurture and may have a chance at changing who they are. Many people will argue that individuals are born with a set list of traits and according to their genetics are already made up to either be good or evil. In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is born into a very loving, wealthy, and normal family. But even with being nurtured so well by loving parents he still

Even with growing up in a very good home Victor admits on page 19 of the novel, “My temper was sometimes violent.” This shows how even with being nurtured so well he was born with a trait that sometimes made him violent. According to multiple studies on over 500 sets of twins that were separated at birth, a lot of these twins shared similar traits with their siblings that they did not grow up with. With this information it shows that these twins were born with very similar traits as their counterparts and thus people's personalities are given to them at birth. On the other side of the argument, you have the nurture side where people's traits are decided from society and how they are raised and treated. In the novel Frankenstein it exemplifies this theme by the character