I became acquainted with the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body" (Shelley 79). In order to do this Victor has to spend many nights observing the bodies at the charnel houses. Upon his successful discovery of life, he collects numerous body parts and begins the creation of his creature. Victor literally takes the body parts of the deceased humans and uses them, thus technically making this beast a "human". Although this is true, many people in society refute this argument with the fact that the creature did not go through the birthing process, and simply woke up a grown adult. Victor responds to these arguments in his description of his creature as he states, "his limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! – Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness." (85). As this passage suggests, the creature has every feature of a human from skin, to teeth, to even arteries, which is the identical make up of every human in the world today. If this does not make him human, then society as whole should question the fact of whether or not we are even humans. In addition, to make sure this creature was not just another cyborg, one must only look at the incident by the river stream. The creature is making his way through the woods when the sound of a little girl running alarms him and he panics to hide himself. The girl slips and falls into the river which alarms him to help her out, but his appearance would doom his noble deed. The man, which may have been the girl's father, shoots the creature immediately as his eyes make contact with the creature. This causes the creature to state: "inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.
Humans have within their grasp the ability and technology to create life. ... The liberal perspective sets cloning in the context of rights, freedoms and personal empowerment. ... Frankenstein admits that the different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. . . . ... Frankenstein. ... Frankenstein. ...
In the 1931 edition of Frankenstein, written by James Whale, Frankenstein portrayed the monster as 'cruel' and oblivious, as a creation, which detained no clasp of feelings felt by human, and controlled no human potentials. ... Without a doubt, Frankenstein goes through discomfort just as much as humans do. ... I say this because it contracts quicker with its moods, and offers him with additional qualities that are more human-like. ... These arrogations usually take apart the monstrous creature through his human-like potentials, converting it to a model of a monstrous figure that Fr...
Frankenstein is defined as a Gothic novel through the many Gothic aspects it features. ... The setting of Frankenstein is a strong part of what makes the novel Gothic. ... Frankenstein's creature is a wondering figure who seeks for acceptance. ... Through murdering his human victims, the creature shows that he has the potential to cast diasters of catastrophic proportion to mankind. ... "Victor is so consumed with the possibility of creating a human life that he does not stop to consider the morality of such an action". ...
She wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by the time she was 19. ... She was the daughter of two great intellectual rebels of the 1790's and her mother wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. ... From Walton to Victor Frankenstein to Frankenstein's monster. ... This gives a quick feeling to the book, but also a very deep sense of understanding, much like the human train of thought when under pressure. ... This theme is still evident in modern literature today, a perfect example is the matrix: humans got the knowledge they had been after and created AI, the ...
Frankenstein's experiments. ... Only after the process is perfected and psychological damage to the subject is minimized, Frankenstein will once again work on human subjects begin. ... First there would need to be great debate about rights for these re-animated beings. Would the new 'race' be entitled to the same rights as man brought into this would naturally? ... We have agreed to grant Victor Frankenstein funds to perform his research on non-human subjects in relative secrecy. ...
Imagine if you could clone a human just like in those "Sci-Fi" movies. ... Human cloning is expected to be put into practice soon. ... ""You"d have to be crazy not to see the bad results they've had in animals," Randolfe Wicker, founder of the Clone Rights United Front, a group in New York City that promotes human cloning says. ... A human is likely to be cloned, and soon. ... But should human cloning be feared as the next Frankenstein's monster of genetic engineering (Colvin 39), or should it just simply be used for another technical device that people could use and take advanta...
Manufacturing human bodies for spare parts? ... Frankenstein. ... The scientists will simply clone an organ and replace the faulty one in the human. ... Once again the rights of the clones come up and the thought of clone farms seem to be ridiculous. ... We would be killing innocent human lives in the process as well. ...
The prospect of mass production of human beings, compromised in their individually, identity, and self-image outweighs whatever benefits could come out of human cloning. ... Cloning is threatening these qualities and rights of what it means to be an individual. ... Human cloning would break all of these if we began this process. To me, human cloning is something not to be taken lightly. We should learn from Dolly and what might happen in the future and not pursue such a Frankenstein-like idea of mass production of human beings. ...
