Nature (our genes) and nurture (our environment) influence our individual differences in behavior and personality. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley addresses the conflict between nature and nurture. Victor Frankenstein creates a "child" that he abandons at birth. This raises questions like: Was the creature genetically inclined to be evil, or did the hostility it encountered make it evil? Is the environment you live in determined by who you become later in life? Does cultivation shape one's characteristics that will determine who someone will be later in life? Mary Shelley used these questions as an approach to show that the monster is intelligent, but destructive and has feelings of guilt due to his environment and isolation. The monster's guilt due to his environment made him dangerous at first. Each of the sources will discuss the nature versus nurture topic and how they are all connected. Nature is the different influences that help influence someone's life and nurture is the emotional interactions and isolations that influence someone. The Monster's isolation from society expresses a person's traits that are influenced more by the environment than by nature. Education is the environment in which a person is surrounded and in which he grows. Frankenstein's Monster does not fight his attackers, demonstrating his innocence, purity and good intentions. This can be used in contrast to his actions, feelings, and intentions later in the novel. The monster explains: “The whole village was on alarm; some fled, others attacked me, until, severely wounded by stones and many other kinds of thrown weapons...” (Shelley 93-94). He faces violence against him, and as his environment worsens, especially after his encounter with the DeLaceys, he begs… halfway through the process… for paper. QUOTE PAGE 480: Frankenstein tries to dominate nature and achieve enlightenment which confirms that the real problem is nature because if Frankenstein had not gone against nature to create a monster, this would not have happened. CITATION PAGE 478 Beats also cites Frankenstein's "Enlightenment" leading to the destruction of the feminine principle of nature, because the author believes that since the monster was not born, the monster is metaphorically killing nature. Nature always takes the unnatural and that's why the monster is returned to nature---"swallowed up in the ice floes of the north." Once the monster returns to nature, it begs to be put out of its misery, which is an example of how nature was what made him good because he was created as such, but the lack of education is what changed the real monster. and had him killed.