At birth, Victor's creation reflects the Lockean "blank slate" concept as he begins in a state of innocence, exemplified in the metaphor "my soul glowed with love and humanity." He develops characteristically human traits such as the understanding of values, illustrated in his use of superlatives "I felt the greatest ardor for virtue and abhorrence for vice." However, as he matures, he becomes a product of societal rejection depicted in his personification of misery "misery made me a fiend" reflecting Rousseau's notion that humans are innately good and it is a society which...

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