Nature vs. Nurture in Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein

100

"I am by birth a Genevese" (33). This is an example of...?

Nature

200

"No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence." (39). This is an example of...?

Nurture

300

"But while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favourite studies. My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge." (41-42). This is an example of...?

Nurture

The Creature

100

"I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protectors." (121). This is an example of...?

Nurture

200

When the creature first came into the world, he wanted to help others. This included helping out the De Laceys as well as saving the child from drowning. This is an example of...?

Nature

300

"No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing." (124). This is an example of...?

Nurture

Nature

100

Nature - true or false? Explain why. How does this relate to nature? Statement: The creature was born loving and caring.

True. Originally, all the creature wanted to do was help others but then society made him into the murderous creature that he came to be.

200

Nature - true or false? Explain why. Statement: An example of nature is when someone decides not to eat a bag of chips because they know it is bad for them.

False. You are not born knowing that chips are bad for you. The only reason you are aware of it is because you hear it from other people in society (parents, doctors, nutritionists, etc.)

300

Nature - true or false? Explain why. Statement: You know to run away from a lion that is chasing you because you are aware that you will die otherwise.

True. This is a survival instinct that you are born with.

Nurture

100

Nurture - true or false? Explain why. How does this relate to nurture? Statement: Elizabeth's death was a result of scarlet fever.

False. Elizabeth died because of the creature's anger at his creator for not making a female monster, as well as at society for rejecting him.

200

Nurture - true or false? Explain why. Statement: A person can speak 3 languages because it was taught to them.

True. You are not born knowing how to speak a language, it is a skill that is learned.

300

Nurture - true or false? Explain why. Statement: The media impacts how people interpret what is considered beautiful and what isn't.

True. People pay more attention to how someone looks on the outside rather than who they are on the inside.

Bonus

100

When the creature was in the forest one day, he found a bag containing a couple articles including some books (which, when he read them, he did not know that they were fictional and believed the things contained within them). What were the names of two of the books?

Paradise Lost, Lives, Sorrows of Werter