An individual must take full responsibility for their actions and must be educated before acting in a certain way. In Mary Shelly's “Frankenstein,” the novel's antagonist, the creature, was a product of education. Victor, the creature's creator, is driven by a quest for knowledge that turns out to be quite destructive. The creature is belittled by the people around it as well as its creator, it has not been nurtured, loved or cared for, and its actions directly reflect the lack of this from the beginning of its life. While the creature may appear to be guilty, there are several factors to consider that it was unable to control. The creature is disrespected by the citizens of the village he has visited on multiple occasions. After confronting the citizens of the village, he is immediately regarded as horrified and insulted. When the creature confronts one of the families, it is greeted unpleasantly by the children and the woman and states, “But I had barely put my foot in the door before the children screamed and one of the women fainted” (Miller 94). . By stating this the creature implies that his personal appearance is one of the causes of his misery. It also shows how he is right to think that everyone is afraid of him because of his appearance. Furthermore, the creature tries to communicate peacefully with the De Lacey family but ends up being insulted too. While the creature asks the blind old man for help, he is stopped by the reaction of the rest of the family and explains: “Agatha has fainted; and Safie, unable to care for her friend, rushed out of the cottage” (123). As the creature faces more and more humans, he constantly receives the same reaction which plays on his morality. This...... middle of paper......agonist, the creature, does not have a person who brings love or the feeling of being cared for into his life. The creature was expressed as a miserable individual who got a lot of negative emotions throughout the novel. Not only was he disrespected by the people living around him, but Victor didn't teach him how to behave and he wasn't cared for or loved, which was the only thing he truly wanted. If the question is whether the creature was a product of nature or nurture, the answer is nurture as it was its own enemy throughout history. If Victor had taken the time to raise and educate the creature, there would have been a much better chance that all those deaths simply would not have occurred. It is shown how one's actions can cause so much harm to a large group of people and in this case Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is the perfect example of this.