John Locke Frankenstein Research Paper

John Locke was a profound philosopher who shaped modern philosophy. One of John Locke’s therories is that when a child is born they start their life on a “blank state”. He theorized the way people act and think is based on experiences they had when they were younger. People who had good experiences turned out good and people with bad experiences turned out bad. However, not everyone with those experiences turns out to be the person that they were projected to be. There is evidence in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, which supports that claim. People start off with a clean slate and they become the person they were meant to become based on their experiences they had in life whether it be good or bad is up to fate.
People are always searching to find something that makes them happy good experiences in the past leads to a better person in the future. ”Growth memories related to maturity and well-being in ways that reflected their roots in a eudaimonic approach to the good life”(Bauer). Good memories that people grow up with lead to a
much better life in the future. If the person is surrounded with positive memories they tend to become a positive person. “ It seems clear that devoting one’s life to a meaningful purpose, particularly one that benefits others, would be considered morally good”(King). A good person is someone that devotes themselves to something that benefits others. If you had experienced someone being a morally right person chances are they will strive to be alike to that person that they have experienced
People that are considered bad have been doing negative things all their life. “Youth may join gangs or drink or take drugs because they have been victimized and are using these strategies to cope”(Finkelhor). When people experience something negative they try to cope by doing negative things. Those things that they originally do to cope turn into a negative lifestyle. “They were killers with childhoods of physical and sexual abuse, bad parenting, and poor education”(Becker,Johnson). These negative experiences plus other elements lead people into become serial killers. Since their whole life was full of negative experiences they turned out negative. “The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind (Shelly). In the book Frankenstein, the monster tried to do something good by saving a little girl, but after he saved her he was still treated with hate. This negative experiences made the creature hate mankind and this negative experience lead him down the path to becoming a killer. If the creature would have had positive experiences he would not have turned out a negative person. If these people have not experienced these negative events they would not have turn into what they were. Even so, some people beat the odds and turn out the opposite despite the experiences they have had during their life.
“Eminem has been scathingly critical of the way his mother raised him. Through his song lyrics, he has publicly accused her of being addicted to prescription drugs as well as subjecting him to emotional and physical abuse”(Biography). The rapper Eminem had negative experiences growing up with his mom.These negative experiences he had childhood would usually would make people turn bad.”Eminem is doubtlessly one of the most acclaimed rappers in the genre's brief history”(Biography). Despite all the negative experience Eminem has had in his life he turn out to be extremely successful. Eminem beat the odds and turn out to be a positive person even with all of his negative experiences in his childhood. Not everybody turns out the same way and people can have negative experience and turn out to be positive
people.
People start off with a clean slate and they become the person they were meant to become based on their experiences they had in life whether it be good or bad is up to fate. People that had very warm and fun childhood experiences usually turn out to be positive people. People that experienced abuse or hate usually turn out to be negative people. But,sometimes the opposite happens and people like Eminem who had negative experience turned out to be a positive person. Experiences that people face in their lifetime determined the type of person they will become.