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Children Effect Parental Behavior In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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A human being is born neither good or bad. They are simply brought into the world without knowing anything. However, as they grow up, they will eventually create a mindset that has been developed from their various experiences in their lives. For example, a baby who was raised up in a hard-working environment, will eventually develop that same quality as they grow up. In the novel, Frankenstein, we are able to observe how a person’s character/personality is developed by the problems and experiences they have encountered. An individual’s mindset and other attributes are shaped by their experiences that have greatly impacted their lives. Mary Shelley shows us in the novel, that people become who they are based upon the experiences they encounter …show more content…

Which is why we can all agree that not one individual is born good or bad. They are merely shaped by what they have experienced in their lives. The majority of the people believe, that a violent person is violent, due to their ancestral background. According to Sandra Turner Brown, director of the Lipman School at the University of Memphis and an expert in early childhood education, states that children who are exposed to violence early on in their childhood, will carry that behavioral characteristics through the rest of their lives (Children Reflect Parental Behavior). Since genetics did not play a major role in this scenario, both Victor and the monster are who they are, due to the environment they were raised up in, how society changed their personality, and how knowledge was able to change and influence their way of thinking. Overall, people need to stop judging others by how they are on the outside, and instead, give them a chance to be your friend. If society did not disapprove of the monster, then they would have been amazed by the outcome. The monster wasn’t always a horrible being. If more people can acquire the time to actually befriend or even just talk to someone that is undergoing a difficult time in their life, then humans can live in a much more pleasant world. If society can realize that some individuals lived difficult lives or even a miserable one, then they might be able to understand what they were required to endure through and the pain they also had to endure to reach where they are

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