creates is
initially full of love and kindness. He wants nothing more than the acceptance and love of other
human beings, such as his creator, . But Victor rejects him in horror, fleeing him. When the
creature tries to approach people in a friendly way, they react with terror at his looks,
thinking he is a monster. Even the kind De Lacey family rejects him, and after the creature
saves a child from drowning, the child's caretaker shoots him in the arm for his
pains.
Although nature has produced a creature with a good heart, nurture
turns him to evil. The creature, constantly rejected and treated as horrible, even when he tries
to do good, turns to evil out of loneliness, anger, and despair. He murdersto hurt Frankenstein
the way he himself has been hurt. He continues to lash out in anger against Victor's friends and
family because of how he has been treated.
Shelley posits that humans are
born good, even humans as aberrant as the creature Victor creates. It is nurturetreating people
cruelly and with rejectionthat turns them to evil. As the creature says:
I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make
peace with all.
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