... account of how he came to be in the Artic, chasing the "creature". Frankenstein begins his story in Geneva, at home with his family, during chapter three, his mother dies of scarlet fever after attending to Elizabeth, whom she contracts it from. After she dies, Frankenstein's father "resolved" it "necessary ... this morose degradation of the science shows how far Frankenstein will go to create "life from dead matter". The monster is brought to life in Chapter five, "on a dreary November night, again this adds to the stereotypical image of the horror genre. Before he gives life to the mo...

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... and hate, or any other personality or character traits. This belief that a person's mind is a blank slate at birth is not a modern one. As early as the late seventeenth century, philosopher John Locke's theory of tabula rasa, "blank slate, "stated that "the human mind receives knowledge ... and begins to question his creation, from Plutarch's Lives he learns "high thoughts and about the violent tendencies of human civilization, and from Paradise Lost he learns to identify himself with Satan, the master of evil and violence. This incident involving the creature's encounter with mainstream...

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