The Prometheus Article Analysis

JURISDICTION AND VENUE: Pursuant to International Code ratified by all member countries of the United Nations, this Court has jurisdiction to hear the present case in special session at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California.
INTRODUCTION: The prosecution pleas, Victor Frankenstein is found guilty for violating “The Prometheus Article” as well as for committing negligent homicide. Frankenstein may be proven guilty of murder through the the elements of the mens rea and actus reus, whereas his disobedience of “The Prometheus Article” may be condemned by the three basic laws of negligence, known by many as the “Three Feasance Sisters”. The prosecution demands Victor to serve a four-life sentence with a “15 years to life” possibility
The creation of artificial man by Victor Frankenstein demonstrates the negligent act of malfeasance. Frankenstein was told by a colleague of his, M. Krempe, that “every instance [he had] wasted on those books [was] utterly and entirely lost”(Shelley 50). Victor Frankenstein himself also stated,”The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him, and was acquainted with their practical uses. The most learned philosopher knew little more.”(Shelley 41). Having been urged by Krempe to abandon his research, as well as coming to an understanding of nature’s boundaries, in which all humans must obey, Frankenstein still refuses to put aside his pride; Frankenstein proceeds with the experiment with gross disregard, despite its unlawful nature, as stated in “The Prometheus Article”. Frankenstein not only performs this act, but does so in a poor matter. Demonstrating misfeasance, it is said that Frankenstein had “dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or tortured the living animal”(Shelley 62), in order to create his creature. Digging up the bodies of the dead in order to perform an already unlawful experiment seems to further establish Frankenstein’s disrespect for life. How could one who ignores the value of one’s life after death, be expected to realize the value of one’s life when they are alive? Lastly, Frankenstein demonstrates nonfeasance by failing to analyze the consequences before his act. While creating his creature’s companion, Frankenstein ponders if “she might become ten times more malignant”(Shelley 221), if “they might even hate each other”(Shelley 221), or the creation of “a race of devils who would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.”(Shelley 222). It is these types of ethical and logical dilemmas Frankenstein had failed to acknowledge before,