Resumo de Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Frankenstein tells the story of a living being that
develops purely from nature? or so I thought.
The beginning starts out with a monster being created from
other people?s body parts. His brain is
taken from a criminal, and therefore, he turns out to be an evil person. When he becomes alive he is fully grown, but
has had no exposure to any nurturing. It
is coded in his personality to be violent; this refutes the ?blank slate?
theory. He is violent just because he
was created that way, nobody taught him about violence or corruption. So
Frankenstein walks around oblivious and ignorant in this new world, and attacks
anything that initially scares him. He
is petrified of fire and has outbursts towards anything that threatens him,
especially with fire. Up until the end
of the movie I was planning on writing this paper solely about how the nurture
argument loses all merit in this scenario.
Then Frankenstein meets the little girl, Emily. Emily is an innocent child who doesn?t know
to be scared of Frankenstein. She
hasn?t witnessed him do anything intimidating and invites him to play with
her. She is picking flowers and offers
a few daisies to Frankenstein. He sits
down to play with her, and Frankenstein?s sensitive juvenile side is
exposed. This is where the nurture
aspect comes into play; Frankenstein is nurtured by the little girl. If it was purely a matter of nature,
Frankenstein would have killed Emily because it is in his nature to be a
violent murderer. But the little girl
teaches him how to play and be calm, and he follows her lead. They throw daisies into the water and watch
them float. Frankenstein runs out of
daises, and because of his ignorance, throws Emily into the water to see if she
will float. When he sees her struggling
and drowning he runs around looking for help.
He panics and doesn?t know how to save her, but when he realizes she is
dead he has remorse for his actions and is truly saddened. This shows that the nurturing he experienced
from Emily had an impact on his persona.
His characteristics were molded due to an outside influence. Frankenstein
is not the story I thought it was. It
didn?t tell the story of a creature that lived in the world without
nurturing. It did the exact
opposite. It showed how a human would
develop purely from nature, and then change and grow when nurture was thrown
into the mix. I am curious to see how
the newer remake of Frankenstein differs from this version. Sometimes movies have slight modifications
that end up subconsciously impacting the entire story. I want to see this new version and compare
the two.

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