This question is easily debated because it can really go either way. However, I am choosing to say that for the most part you are the product of your environment. In any situation though, the characteristics of the person greatly affect this. I believe that if Frankenstein had raised his monster is a nourishing and positive environment Mary Shelly’s book would not have been very interesting. It could have just been about an eight foot tall freak trying to live a normal life. For example, children who have been raised in low income neighborhoods with high crimes rates are more likely to end up in prison.
On the other hand, a person does have the ability to influence their environment. One way to do this is to give back to the community. It could by helping out at events or being a philanthropist. I chose my answer because I believe it is far more likely and there are plenty of more cases where people are products of their environment rather than make the environment a product of them.
After reading the little story in front my book about how the book was written I have come to the conclusion that this book is simply the product of Mary Shelly’s environment. She was apparently on vacation with the ultimate romantic hero Lord Byron and her husband. There was a challenge placed to create a scary story. Lord Bryon and her husband each created one and they kept badgering her until she was finally forced to make one. She had a simple idea and then the three of them worked together to develop it even further. Mary Shelly then wrote it as her novel “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”. I believe that if Mary Shelly was never in that environment of being pressured to create a story this story would never have been written.
Also I hope people would try to help their neighbors unlike Mr. Pepys who upon hearing about the fire, went back to sleep as if nothing had happened. Pepys also showed us how they treated their women during this era. Pepys would be juggling multiple mistresses while having a wife. People in their time married only for political reason and did not believe in a thing called love