'Master Ming And Branagh's Frankenstein'

“Man’s nature at birth is good” (). Referred to as “Master Ming”, Mencius was a fourth century Chinese scholar whose significance in the Confucian mythology is second to that of Confucian himself. In numerous ways, he contemplated the thought of the master for successive ages while synchronously inspiring Confucian’s perceptions alongside his own profound approaches. Mencius was predominantly renowned for his famous ideology of human nature, conforming to which all beings engage in innate integrity in which either can be refined through literacy and determination or brutalized through negligence and pessimistic factors. Ming genuinely views human nature as superior as they acquire an inborn aspiration towards goodness. He demonstrates his point by

nurture approach explains an abiding controversy that debits whether genetic hereditary or the surrounding environment embed a greater consequence on one’s characteristics. As a matter of fact, the ideology in which individuals commence with a new blank slate at birth is known as tabula rasa (). This provokes the concept in which one is born free and virtuous, but is later corrupted by civilizations. As a consequence, one’s personality is adjusted accordingly by nurture. The theme is highlighted in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and Kenneth Branagh’s film production Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In the novel, it was displayed that the protagonists, Victor Frankenstein and the creature, inherit nature that determines one’s identity and lifestyle. This motif is proved as Shelly utilizes society’s rejection and the beast inadequacy to fit in to demonstrate that nurture is the dominant factor in the construction of his sinister behaviours. In addition, the wretch was inborn with a set of innocent morals. However, his creator, Victor neglected him; the very instant he was brought into life. Hence, never being educated regards how to act and behave in certain