Many people experience a lack of nurture, their parents may not mold them into the perfect child they want them to be. Parents can’t necessarily form their child’s personality but the experiences your child goes through can change them in many ways. The assumption that a child is blank state that is formed only through experience by Locke is arguably more correct than a child’s upbringing is responsible for his education. In Frankenstein the monster is a good reason why the experiences he goes through by seeing a family for the first time, seeing fire, etc. changes him, because when he was born his mind was a blank state. The monster is a prime example why the experiences you go through change you as a person and as a child your experiences …show more content…
“In the early years, parents are their children’s first teachers — exploring nature, reading together, cooking together, and counting together”(PBS). Having an anti-social childhood such as your dad being aggressive or abusive, you’re most likely going to be that way due to experience. It is key to having a pro-social childhood because you are able to be yourself and there is many positive effects. “The crux of Bandura’s social learning theory is that children (and adults new to situations) learn from others in the environment how to behave”(Heflick). In Bandura’s experiment the child watches an adult hit a Bobo doll and after is affected by that and most of the children who watched repeated what they saw the adult do. This is another example as to why our parents affect us and what we see and what they do because we kind go off of it and every experience we have with our parents can affect us in some way. Overall experiencing a positive childhood can help you have better social abilities, working with others, more confidence, …show more content…
Your childhood is one of the most beneficial and crucial moments of your life. When the monster was created by Frankenstein he had no intent to be what he came out to be. Frankenstein didn’t necessarily want to create a “monster” but since the majority of things the monster experienced were bad he started to become very angry and act like an actual monster. Our Parents are the reason we experience many things in our childhood, such as riding a bike, what we eat, camping, etc. A bad experience can happen when we least expect it. Overall John Locke’s theory is far more correct than a child’s upbringing is responsible for his
Lastly, Locke didn’t believe in material or tangible rewards, instead he believed in setting up punishments and rewards based on the parent’s approval or disapproval. He thought this would have the child either feel they let the parents down or their support. All of the ways Locke believed about educating a child are similar to 20th century behaviorists in which they both believe that a person’s behavior and mind are molded by their environments and also that based on a person’s experiences you can know alot about them. - Aylin
Right when a baby is born, they immediately begin to seek for someone to trust and provide for their basic needs. As an individual grows, they develop their own personality and characteristics, but this begs the question if a human’s personality and characteristics are determined more on nature or nurture. Which leads to the question: what characteristics make a human really a human? In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster from the dead using body parts from the dead. Instantly, Victor abandons the monster who later turns to murder.
First of all, their conceptions of natural inclinations are different. Locke disagrees on naturalism while Rousseau disagrees on the use of habits and social conventions for the education of young children. Locke believes that humans are born without innate ideas and gradually acquired knowledge through experience and external environment. He fostered an idea of “tabula rasa” which believes the child is born neutral not evil. Rousseau, on the other hand, believes that children are born with their natural instincts and minimize the obstacles of civilization and let them explore life, learn by themselves and face obstacles by knowing what is wrong and what is right.
Without any guidance the monster was abandoned by Victor Frankenstein and forced to learn everything on his own. The monster was released into the world without any knowledge of morals, independence, solving problems, tolerance, or even communication. These are all essential skills that every child learns while growing up in. The monster did not have a childhood, but his development was similar to that of Victor’s childhood.
Regardless of who we strive to be, or who we dare not to be, those who we respect and look up to will be the ones who leave an impression on our lives. To the Monster’s credit, it continued to pursue a life of good deeds until the people it idolized turn on it. Because of the influence made on it by its parental figures the Monster behaves like an outsider, and as an outsider it gains new role models and is governed by new emotions such as anger and hate. The monster should not be blamed for its malicious nature, rather, the people who taught it hate and the Doctor who created it without a true intent of being its
nurture through the character development, reactions, and decisions of the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein. Based on Frankenstein's nature to learn and have rash and irrational decisions, it certainly caused him to act inhuman in certain circumstances of the story, naturally. Nonetheless, his family bond, which was nurtured into him, also caused him to make monstrous decisions and actions in other situations within the plot. Therefore, Mary Shelly claims, through Victor Frankenstein that both human nature, and the environments that one is put in, can mold them into inhuman monsters, whether this person is the product of the nurturing, or the perpetrator, and in this case, Frankenstein was
Frankenstein : Psychology of Parenting When a child is created and brought into this world, it is the parent’s responsibility to nurture, guide, and teach he/she how to develop and strive socially, mentally, and emotionally in this world. Human beings have to be taught everything. Without someone teaching them right from wrong and how to survive, they could end up feral. It is the parent’s responsibility to teach their child socially and morally to help them survive.
Childhood is a time in a person’s life where the most growing occurs, not only physically but also mentally. The human brain is nourished and maintained by the love and affection children receive from both parents and it continues to do so for the rest of their lives. The creature’s inability to build up courage and try to interact with society as well as his constant questioning of his existence is a direct result of an inexistent childhood as well as the absence of a loving family. Frankenstein’s mother and Elizabeth were both orphans so he was well aware of the importance of love and nurturing for people of all ages, yet he denied the creature the opportunity to receive affection of any sort. “No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles
Frankenstein's description of the creature present him as disgusting and horrifying. The description of the creature makes him feel as if he is unwanted, his father rejected him, so he became an outsider and was isolated from the rest of society, since he believes no one cares for him. In society nowadays, there is a large fear of social interaction due to the overprotection of parents. For example, psychiatrists are concerned with child development patterns of adolescents who were overprotected during their childhood and do not know how to properly interact with
If you thought that you had daddy issues, then you haven’t read Frankenstein. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is about a man named Victor Frankenstein, who defies the laws of nature by creating a freaky being made from science. This being, The Creature, grows up around and observes humanity. It’s education consists only from what it encounters, given by nature. Ultimately, The Creature is rejected by humanity, and he reacts by seeking revenge upon Victor, killing his friends, family, and finally Victor.
As seen in Frankenstein, family plays a key element in the development of each character. Victor Frankenstein was nourished by his family from crib to grave and they served as a support system for him. In contrast, The Creature was abandoned from the day he was created. It was the lack of family that drove the creature to seek revenge on his creator, Victor Frankenstein.
Frankenstein’s Monster is not categorized as evil by his malicious behavior and is sympathized with due to his creator abandoning him and the role of nature versus nurture taken place II. Monster’s Nature and alienation A. Monster originally had an inquisitive nature yet gentle nature a. Information on the German family was “each interesting and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as [he] was” (105) B. With the rejection and alienation from society, the only interactions the monster experiences, he becomes full of hatred a. Rejected by De Lacey family by his looks and labeled a monster b. Tries to save a child but is shot by child’s father C. Reader may feel sympathy towards the Monster’s actions because the readers know that his true nature was not evil and he was misjudged III.
According to this quote, Locke explains that people are born with empty minds, but individual learning and experiences will help to shape life. Experience comes from two different sources: outer experience and inner experience. Outer experience comes from the senses and provide sensory details like color, shapes, heat, and sweetness. Since these qualities exist in material objects, every human perception is the same and produce the same impact in each human. Inner experience comes through self reflexion and provides ideas such as beliefs, ideas, and thoughts.
First of all, their conceptions of natural inclinations are different. Locke disagreed on the use of naturalism, while Rousseau disagreed on the use of habits and social conventions for the education of the children. John Locke believed every human born without innate ideas. He believes that children have “tabula rasa” they are lives with their blanks minds.
The fictional horror novel of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is driven by the accentuation of humanity’s flaws. Even at the very mention of her work an archetypal monster fills one’s imagination, coupled with visions of a crazed scientist to boot. Opening her novel with Robert Walton, the conduit of the story, he also serves as a character to parallel the protagonist’s in many ways. As the ‘protagonist’ of the story, Victor Frankenstein, takes on the mantle of the deluded scientist, his nameless creation becomes the embodiment of a truly abandoned child – one left to fend for itself against the harsh reality posed by society. On the other hand, Walton also serves as a foil to Victor – he is not compulsive enough to risk what would be almost