nature vs. nurture theme
Discussed is whether human behavior is determined more by the environment, either prenatal or during a person's life, or more by a person's genes.
4 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| novel: Herland (1915) | choice | The novel explores gender as a social construction. |
| movie: Gattaca (1997) | major | We were shown that people, Vincent Freeman in particular, could succeed in a world where genetic augmentation was commonplace in spite of having been born the old fashioned way. |
| movie: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) | major | Two genetically identically Picard's grew up in markedly different circumstances and one ended up being good and the other evil as a result. |
| movie: The Boys from Brazil (1978) | minor | A scientist explained how it wasn't enough for the Hitler clones to have identical DNA to the fuhrer, but rather their environments needed to mimic Hitler's own in order for them to turn out the same way that he did. |