Mary Shelleys Frankenstein :: English Literature:

Mary Shelleys Frankenstein looks at the consequences of mans attempts to meddle in the creation of life. In the 21st century, with its scientific and expert advancements does her accounting quench get to an valu competent message for humankind?Steven FosterMary Shelleys Frankenstein looks at the consequences of mansattempts to meddle in the creation of life. In the 21st century, withits scientific and technological advancements does her story still arrive at an important message for humankind?In Frankenstein Mary Shelley is trying to convey many messages, besidesthe most important one of these is that it is not mans business to dothe jobs of the gods which is why Victor Frankenstein tells his storyin the first place. I believe that it is still worth sense of hearing thismessage as we are doing the same thing again we have the technologyto create a human being from scratch and virtually enough to choose whatit looks like. Only the other day for example on the news they weresho wing how scientists could choose the sex of a baby.Mary Shelley intend the book as a warning, the story was told withinthe book as a warning and it was as if Victor Frankenstein was tellingthe story to the good deal of the time. The reason she wrote the book inthe form of a warning was because at the time many sudden advancementsled people to believe that they would in short understand and be able tocreate life. This did not happen but in our time we are realisticallyclose to being able to do these things so the warning is stillrelevant as it dialog about issues that havent happened yet.Most of the characters in the book are there to fulfill a purpose,Robert Walton is in the book so that Frankenstein after part warn individualabout the dangers of pursuing a dream and so he can tell the storylearn from me, if not by my precepts, then at least by my example,how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happierthat man is who believes his essential village to be the world, than hewho aspires to become greater than his nature leave alone allow. The monsteris in the book to be the result of an try as in the aboveanalogy would be the killer bees who were knowing to create morehoney than ordinary bees who then escaped and have wiped out all othertypes of bees, like the monster who was intended to be the first of anew race A new species would signalise me as their creator This quote