... people in society. Genetics do not play a large role in shaping a person's character and personality. Nowhere is this argument more evident than in the innocence of a newborn baby. A newborn is brought into the world with no preset notions of good and evil, love and hate, or any other personality or character traits. This belief that a person's mind is a blank slate at birth is ... abandonment by Victor, nature is the creature's first nurturer. He eats berries, drinks water from a brook, finds shelter in the woods, and takes pleasure in the songs of birds (Shelley 90-91). The DeLacey fa...

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