Based on your viewing of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein so far, does the film attempt to show that "nurture" (what a person learns from his environment) is more influential than "nature" (what a person is born with) or that "nature" is more important than "nurture"?
Write a paragraph. State your answer clearly. (That's your thesis or assertion.) Then develop your answer with explanation and supporting details from your notes on the film.
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I believe that Frankenstein is more affected by nurture than by nature. Nature isn’t really part of his case because he wasn’t really born he was created. When Frankenstein first started walking the streets you could see that he was watching the people around him to kind of learn how to react to the world around him. For example, when he saw the woman sniffing the bread to see if it was fresh he started doing the same thing. When he started to pick it up he was brutally attacked by the people and that taught him the unfortunate lesson of violence. Also when he went to the people’s house he saw the man and wife trying to pick the crops out of the frozen ground. After they gave up he went out and picked all of them for the people. Lastly, Frankenstein watched as the mother taught the little girl how to read. From that he learned how to talk and to read at the same time. From this story I think that Frankenstein definitely came about by nurture and not by nature.
In Frankenstein I believe agian that nurture plays a much bigger role then nature. When Frankenstein was created he was like a baby. He had to learn the ways of life and the meanings behind everything. He had to learn how to read, write, and speak. From the very begining of his life as a monster he was exposed to violence. First Victor tried killing him realizing how stong of a creation Frankenstein was. Then the towns people thought he was the killer of M. Waldman so they tried to beat him to death. After all that people were scared of him because of how he looked and thought right away that he must be evil because of how he looked therefore they attacked him too. However, this proving my point, when Frankenstein was staying in the pig house of a little family's home and thought it was kind of them to let him stay there evern though they weren't aware of it. Therefore he pulled up all the frozen food from the ground for them so they could survive and in return they left food out for him. He picked up on every little thing through the movie after he was created. He is a very good example of how nuture is more effective than nature.
I believe that Frankenstein is affected more by nurture then nature. For one thing he became a live as a older person by Victor's science experiment. When he went out into the he would see violence and how people would judge other people. That is what the towns people would do to Frankenstein when they saw him. The people would chase him. Then Frankenstein would come across this farm and would stay there. While staying in that barn he would learn how to pick the crop for the family that was living there in order to survive. Through the hole in the wall Frankenstein would learn how to speak. For instance he would try and say the word friend because the mother was trying to teach her daughter to read the word friend. Another thing that Frankenstein would learn from the environment is how to sneak around because he did not want to be caught again because of how the towns people reacted when they first saw him. An example of this would be when the grandfather was out side playing his instrument and Frankenstein tried to get close to listen to the music. The blind grandfather heard someone coming so he stopped and had asked who was there and so Frankenstein did not answer and snuck away. The environment is influencing Frankenstein to become the way he is.
I think Frankenstein is more affected by nurture than nature. When Victor tells Frankenstein that he was created out of materials this proves that Frankenstein can not be influenced by nature. The first reason that Frankenstein was effected by nurture was when he escaped from Victor and went out onto the street and saw a lady smelling bread. He smelled the bread also and went to eat it and people started to fight him. This is why i think Frankenstein was affected more by nature than nurture.
I believe that Frankenstein was more influenced by nurture. This is because he was created and was basically born an adult. Frankenstein did not have the qualities that most people are born with. He learned how to behave in the ways of others. For example he learned to be violent when he pushed the townspeople because the townspeople tried to attack and hurt Frankenstein. He also learned to be caring and nice by observing. He watched the family and then as a kind gesture he picked all the crops for them. Frankenstein also was influenced by how people treated him. Most were scared of him and because of this, he was disrespectful to most people. In the movie Frankenstein was more influenced by nurture not nature.
I my point of view I believe that Frankenstein is more affected by nature than by nurture. When victor first creates Frankenstein, Frankenstein doesn’t really understand the true meaning of life. When Frankenstein first gets out to the real world, he doesn’t understand anything. When Frankenstein gets pushed by that lady when he just tries to see what food really looks like and feels like she pushes him. Frankenstein doesn’t know what violence is yet. Frankenstein is like a new born. He has to learn the fine morals of being a human being.
If you were to ask me if nature or nurture is more influential in the movie frankenstein,i would tell you that i could see both nature and nurture, but the most influentinal is deffiently nurture.it was when Frankenstein was first "created" he dident know how to react to the lifestyle he was made into. As the movie goes on, he seen how people looked and later compared his looks to them and it made frankenstein see himself in a totally different light,so thats where nurtue comes in, because throughtout the movie he acts upon his surroundings(Hatetrid & Violence)and adapts to what he thinks is okay, and i kinda think his actions correspond to how people react to his nature, like when victors little brother first saw him, he became frightened and ran away, in which enraged frankenstein, but when frankenstein approached the blind man, he had a totally different reaction, and frankenstein dident understand why he dident run away, and thats when you see the soft side of him, and then again begin to understand how alone he is, because he doesint know where he belongs and he takes his frustration out on his creator victor and trys to get back at him everyway possible. At the end of the movie he realizes that hes nothing without victor. So i would also have to say that frankenstein was more influenced by nurture in this case.
I think without doubt Frankenstein is more affected bye nurture because he does what he sees other people do and doesn’t make complicated decisions. Also I find it hard that he has any nature considering he was created and then hung up in chains watching other people.
In Frankenstein, nurture is the more dominate factor for him. Once Frankenstein was created, Victor just kicked him out(or ran him out). Once we is out roaming the town he has to then learn what and what not to do. When he comes across the house in the woods he learns from them how to read, speak, and be kind. Throughout the rest of the movie, Frankenstein will show random acts of kindness like helping the family in the house by picking the potatos and helped the old man from the guard. He also learned violence countless times. When the family came back to the house and he was beaten out of the house, and in the town when he picked up the bread and the villagers attacked him with anything they could get there hands on.
In Frankenstein the writer is trying to force nurture down your throat. She is making you look at it through the monster's point of view and how people don't take the time to get to listen to him speak as he said to the blind man. The Monster would go on to talk about how people would see the outside of him and be like "oh look a monster kill him!" when all he wanted was a chance to be accepted. When he had his right denied to be an accepted person he went to his next learned stimulus which would be go on a killing spree. The monster wanted people to react to his words but all they reacted to was his grostque figure.
In Frankenstein i believe that the monster is more affected by nurture than nature. How Frankenstein acts isnt how he was "born" because he was not born, he was brought back to life. The author is clearly trying to show you that nurture is how people learn because when frankenstein is first "born", he is attacked by the people and he fights back, but this is before he has been exposed to anything else, after seeing how nice the family is to each other he is affected and protects them and makes friends with the old man and likes people, but then the old mans family drives him out of the house so frankenstein doesnt know what to think and this is basically because of how the humans have treated him, or brought him up in this case, so nurture is also more influential in frankenstein
I belive that nature is more influential than nurture in the story of frankenstein. I'm not saying that nurture didnt contribute, what im saying is that i think that nature is just a bit more significant. nurture plays a role in him learning how to read and talk from the family in the forest, and the violence from his street incident when he was first born, but his human nature causes him to want someone, a female companion he tells his Victor. Also, clearley nature (the way frankenstein was born) has affected frankenstein(victor had not given him a name so thats what he'll be mentioned as here) and gave him a monsterious look, if frankenstein looked liked a normal human and not a monster maybe people would have treated him diffrent, he would maybe have friends and not need to seek victor, kill his family and loved ones and demand a female partner be created. But since he was born with horrfieying looks it caused people to fear him (victors brother and family in forest were dad beat him) and run from him rather than imbrace him and just treat him like a human.I belive this drove the frankenstein charecter mad causing him to murder victors loved ones. So this is why i belive that nature is more important than nurture in this novel because of the looks that frankenstein is born with that caused people to fear him.
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Monster is most effected by nature. It is true that he had the intelligence of an infant at his "rebirth" but there are clear signs he was not nearly as effected by nurture. In many instances clear signs of this are made discernible by his comments. He talks about knowing how to play the flute without even have been taught. His rapid growth of intelligence stems from him having one of the greatest minds which was the brain of the scientist. I don't believe you can definitively say that his morals and values were defined by nature because, from what we are shown, there is nothing that would lead you to that conclusion. The only thing you see is him being an outcast, an animal. Frankenstein is greatly effected by nature, more so than nurture, and it is made evident throughout the film.
In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, the monster is more affected by nature. It is obvious that the monster's mind is portrayed as a blank slate to be molded by his surroundings, but it becomes implcit when the monster reacts to the public's reaction to him that the monster is more influenced by nature. Because the monster has a "blank slate" of a mind he can only rely on his human nature because he has not yet learned how to react. All that Frankenstein's monster is given at birth (?) is human nature. The monster never learns how he should feel when he is mistreated but still becomes enraged and eager to seek revenge because it is human nature to be vindictive and to desire acceptance.
For Frankenstein, nature is clearly more important than nuture. Sure, nuture turned the monster into the monster that he is now, but nature caused not only him, but Victor himself to be like that. Victor was brought up to be attached and affectionate with his family. He was so attached, that he was tempted to do "God's work" so he can be reunited. This caused the monster to be created, and he started his life. When the monster was first made, he was attacked and shooed away by people. This is more of nature instead of nuture, because he wouldn't have been shooed away if he was a regular person or if he wasn't so deformed.
In Mary Shelly’s novel “Frankenstein” nature is more important than nature. This is because; when the creature is born into this world he doesn’t know much. When the creature goes out and observes the town’s people he learns many new things from the humans including how to read and write. This could be argued because at one point in the movie the creature is playing a flute. The creature does not know why he can play the flute. This obviously means that he was born already knowing how to play the flute. In this movie I think nature is very influential.
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