Frankenstein: The Impact of God-like Sciences Stemming from Modern Tech

Frankenstein The Impact of theology-like Sciences Stemming from youthful TechnologyIn bloody shame Shelleys novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankensteins life story is the perfume of the tale. As a young Swiss boy, he grew up in Geneva reading the works of the ancient and outdated alchemists, a priming that serves him ill when he attends university at Ingolstadt. There he learns about innovational science and, within a few years, masters all that his professors feel to teach him. He becomes fascinated with the secret of life, discovers it, and brings a hideous fanatic into the world. The teras proceeds to kill Victors youngest brother, best friend, and married woman he also indirectly causes the deaths of two other innocents, including Victors father. Though torn by remorse, shame, and guilt, Victor refuses to admit to anyone the horror of what he has created, even as he sees the ramifications of his experiment spiraling out of control. This physical composition focuses on the Go d-like sciences that are portrayed in the novel.      Learn from me. . . at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his primal town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature go forth allow (Shelley 101). Victors attempt to play God and originator is most plainly seen through the perceptions and actions of his creation. The creature is born into the world as if it is a baby, knowing nothing of life. This creatures first experience as a living existence is organism shunned by its own creator. I beheld the wretch---the misfortunate monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed and his eyeball, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me He might be possessed of spoken, but I did not hear one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs (Shelley 43).The monster is reaching out to the only thing he knows t hus far, his creator, and is met with disgust. Victor, being merely human, cannot offer this creature the unconditional love and guidance that God bestows on His creatures. This, in turn, leads to the imminent immoral actions of the creature. As technology advances, civilisation grows farther from religious beliefs, attempting to become God-like. Instead of living off what is here, creation build their own habitats. Instead of accepting disease and death, hum... ...saac. "The Scientist as Villian." Asimov on Science Fiction. new-fashioned York Granada, 1983. 65-68.Brooks, Peter. "Godlike Science/ Unhallowed Arts speech and Monstrosity in Frankenstein." New Literary History (Spring 1978) 591-605.Fellman, Gordon. "The Truths of Frankenstein Technologism and Images of Destruction." Psychohistory Review 19 (1991) 177231.Gilbert, Sandra M., and Gubar, Susan. "Horrors Twin Mary Shelleys Monstrous Eve." The Madwoman in the Attic The Woman writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven Yale University Press, 1984. 213-247.http//encarta.msn.com- "Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft," Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2005. http//encarta.msn.com 1997-2005 Microsoft Corporation.Joseph, M.K. Introduction. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley. Ed. M.K. Joseph. Oxford Oxford UP, 1969. i-xx.Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. Ed. M.K. Joseph. Oxford Oxford Up, 1969.Spector, Robert Donald. Introduction. Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror. New York Bantam, 1963. 1-12. Tillyard, E.M.W. Myth and the English Mind. New York Collier Books, 1961.