Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Why Frankenstein's attempt was dangerous

Giving animation to a breathless corpse is the task of Victor Frankenstein.

Scientists at that time ardently invented something unusual. In order to satiate their mind, they fervently attmpted various experiements.

However, doing godlike experiments hasn't been consecrated all the time. Scientists' fervent attempts seemed like a foreboding of a chaotic future. The fear of perpetual inventions that will once exceed the limit given to a human is depicted in Frankenstein.

As mentioned before, Victor Frankenstein tries to give birth to a dead body (this is certainly what God should do). This consequently gives no positive results to everyone: Victor's relatives dies, villagers and the De Lacey's get frightened, and the creature feels complete desolation.

The creature's agony was delineated well in the novel,

"My travels were long, and the sufferings I endured intense. It was late in autumn when I quitted the district where I had so long resided. I travelled only at night, fearful of encountering the visage of human being." (Shelly, 253)

Likewise, the unusual creation, unlike God's creation (humans), never recieves love from anyone but lives in isolation. Why Victor's experiment is called a 'dangerous invention' is because Victor, like most scientist at that time, considered only the invention inself rather than the way of taking care of the creation. Experiment without love differentiates the creation of god and that of the human significantly.

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