Victor's Progress In Frankenstein
With the future progress of scientific technology, there is a concern of whether or not individuals or businesses are attempting to play God and obtain the power to give or take away life. Progress in science causes people to question if scientific advances really do help the common man or can it harm them.
The main character of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, wants to defy the laws of life and science by attempting to bring back the dead. The book follows Victor’s progress on creating the creature to show that using science to play God can lead to horrible consequences. Victor’s interest with science while he was a child, leads him to follow a profession involving science. Victor encounters the death of those close to him while he was a child cause him to create the curiosity of whether or not it is possible to bringing back the dead. …show more content…
The idea of the regeneration of the lives of the dead sparks him to enter with “the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life” (Shelley 37) With the death of loved ones and fascination with science, Victor begins on a private project that will make him “capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter” (Shelley 50). Victor’s first thought is that he created a whole new species that would bless him as their “creator and that would owe their being to me” (Shelley 52). His project becomes a project of artificial construction of a human being by using spares parts. Once finished, he views his creation as an ugly non-worthy being, which he did not intend it to
The main character of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, wants to defy the laws of life and science by attempting to bring back the dead. The book follows Victor’s progress on creating the creature to show that using science to play God can lead to horrible consequences. Victor’s interest with science while he was a child, leads him to follow a profession involving science. Victor encounters the death of those close to him while he was a child cause him to create the curiosity of whether or not it is possible to bringing back the dead. …show more content…
The idea of the regeneration of the lives of the dead sparks him to enter with “the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life” (Shelley 37) With the death of loved ones and fascination with science, Victor begins on a private project that will make him “capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter” (Shelley 50). Victor’s first thought is that he created a whole new species that would bless him as their “creator and that would owe their being to me” (Shelley 52). His project becomes a project of artificial construction of a human being by using spares parts. Once finished, he views his creation as an ugly non-worthy being, which he did not intend it to