Mencius, a respected philosopher in ancient China has once said, “man’s nature at birth is good.” Rousseau is a well-known French philosopher of the 18th century who has once states in his theory on the natural man that one is born free and good but is corrupted by society. One’s personality, therefore, is determined by nurture, or the environment which they have grown up with. This idea is also proven throughout in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein-Shelley uses people’s rejection and the creature’s failure to fit in the society to show that nurture is the leading factor which affects the formation of the creature’s evil character. In the novel, the creature starts his life fresh and innocently similar to a newborn. He eats berries, drinks from the brook, sleeps under shades just like an animal(Shelley 84). He is abandoned by his own creator Victor from the moment he is brought to life, thus, the creature has never been taught how to be a human being. When the creature shows up in public, people panic, “Some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country.”(Shelly 87). The creature does not fight back, proving his innocence, purity, and good intentions. The creature then hides in a hovel, where he learns how to speak, read, and write from the De Lacey family who lives in the cottage right next to his hovel (Shelley Chapter 13). Being moved by the gentle manners of the De Lacey family, the creature longs to join them but dares not (Shelley 91). After realizing their poverty, the creature starts doing good deeds that he thinks would help those people whom he admires-he stops stealing food from them once it becomes aware to him that “in doing this inflicted pain on the cottagers”, collects wood in order to assist their labour (Shelley 92). If the creature were truly born a monster, it is very unlikely that he would have any capacity of love or kindness. As the creature states, “Perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.”(Shelley 110). The creature himself acknowledges that “his behavior and personality are directly affected by his environment.”(Themes and Construction: Frankenstein 1) Growing and learning around people like the cottagers cause the creature to develop into