When Victor Frankenstein animates the creature in Chapter 5, he is repulsed and rushes out of the room. The creature, though created from adult body parts, is a child in terms of his experience in the world.How does he think, act, and feel in the utter absence of a mentor or parent?
Book II of John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding focuses on the origin of our ideas through sensory stimulation, meaning all thoughts come from experience. Locke assumes we all start out (as children) essentially empty of ideas—“white paper,” he calls it, “void of all characters.” When Victor Frankenstein animates the creature in Chapter 5, he is repulsed and rushes out of the room. The creature, though created from adult body parts, is a child in terms of his experience in the world.How does he think, act, and feel in the utter absence of a mentor or parent? In Chapters 11 and 12, the creature is able to speak of his experiences in his early days of consciousness. How does the creature’s perception/reality relate to Locke’s theories?Click the link below (to Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding) and begin reading.
