The Role Of Science In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Science, the study of existence and everyday life. The study of science explores fields such as living things, the universe, environment, and how people function. Science can be used for a positive outcome, but when the natural laws are pushed beyond their limits there will be a negative reaction. Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein” is a novel about an older man, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who is a motivated scientist studying the lifeless. Frankenstein’s goal is to create a human being out of a variety of diseased corpses while disobeying the laws of nature. Frankenstein selfishly devotes his life to creating this being while he willing sacrifices his relationships with his closest acquaintances. Victor is greedy, while making his creation by thinking
After seeing the sight of the creature, Victor abandons himself from what he calls his own monster and realizes what he has done has been the opposite of exceptional. Victor’s abandonment of the creature shows his cowardice. At the first sight of his creation, Victor was, “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep”(Shelley 43-44). Victor is unable to see the creature that he creates, causing him to regret his decisions and have nightmares. Victor hoped that his creature would be beautiful, so he could brag to the others what a genius he was. Instead, when Victor discovered the creature's ugliness he decided that's not what he wanted to represent. Victor decides that his experiment would be an embarrassment to himself and cause terror to the rest of the town. After finishing and viewing his experiment, Victor comments, “Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance”(Shelley 44). Victor realizes that no person would be able to bear the sight of the creature that he creates which causes him to abandon it because he doesn’t know what to do with him. Victor’s fearfulness causes him to accuse the creature of its own hideousness. Victor blames the creature by saying, “Accused creature! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you
After being abandoned by Victor the monster sets off on his own to be disgusted by humans. It was not Victor’s creations fault that he was put in the situation to learn for himself. While talking to Victor the creation says, “Tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?”(Shelley 134). The humans that the creation surrounded himself with ran him out of his own town. All the creation wanted was to be an equal to the humans, but with the hate he received from the town he figured there was no reason to try and treat the townspeople with respect. Again the creature explains how the unfairness from the town affects him when he says, “Shall I respect man when he condemns me? Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance” (Shelley 134-135). The creature found it unfair that humans were able to live with kindness in their everyday lives while he had to suffer through animosity. They way he was being treated gave him no reason to treat others with respect. The creature explains the first moments of his life as, "When I first sought it, it was the love and virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing