The combination of these two techniques establishes the point in which Shelly has made that Victor was doing something beneficial for the world. This perspective on his project changes once the monster is created through the use of technology. This is shown when Victor says “Never will I create someone like you equal in deformity and wickedness.” Shelly’s use of first person once again evokes a connection with the reader whilst the use of the nouns “deformity” and “wickedness” allow the reader to feel that Frankenstein regrets his actions. Thus, as Victor’s perspective on technology changes the reader’s perspective does as well. Shelly does this to warn against industrialization.
He even foreshadows his own fate by saying “Natural philosophy is the genius that regulated my fate” (Shelly, 46). Victor is consumed by the desire to discover the secret of life, and after several years of research, becomes convinced that he has found it. When Victor creates the monster, his elated expectations of science being a beautiful resource has become his burden because he's created a horrid looking monster. Victor's desire to control and manipulate nature, becomes his down fall. Outward appearances are deceiving in this novel because the real monster is not in physical form.
Through this, Mary Shelley illustrates different forms of power as an unchecked capability of society, and expresses their dangers to humanity. In understanding her context, we see Shelley’s intention to compose a didactic message regarding the limitless ability of nature and man, and the threats it poses to humanity. Blade Runner, created almost two centuries later, was composed under vastly different circumstances, yet still voices the same concerns. Through its discussion, we see how Ridley Scott evolves from Shelley’s ideas to present a speculative, dystopian film where humanity has failed to adhere to Shelley’s message, and warns of the consequences when the power she describes is not used responsibly. One of the most dominant concerns shared between Frankenstein and Blade Runner is humanity’s defiance and disrespect to nature and the environment.
The duality of Victor Frankenstein and its creation is obvious. Almost twenty decades after the first edition of the book was published, several people refer to (or even believe that) the horrendous beast as Frankenstein. Of course this is natural, once that the philosophical concept behind it involves precisely the duality between creator and creature. At this point we have two main keys to understanding the importance of the work: it features two themes that are held in high regard by Romanticism, which are the demiurge attempt of creating things, herein called “prometheanism”, blended to the idea of an ego having a double. More specifically, I draw the subject to the actual device that threads the story together, which is the rejection suffered by the monster by his very creator.
This being you must create.” (Smith, 128) One of the similarities between The Monster and Victor Frankenstein is both of them are very smart and determined. Victor Frankenstein was very determined on the theories he has read will work. With his own pure determination, he created The Monster. Although he had
She discloses that character and nurture plays important role on revealing ones morality. In her novel Frankenstein her characters demonstrate that sometime one’s morality may be awful depending on their being and how each are being nurture, if of Victor Frankenstein his great desire of creating life endanger his family, his recklessness in nurturing a naïve creature into vicious exterminator and Robert Walden’s unachievable goals put his crew in grave situation.
Compare the Way Obsession is Presented in The Collector, Frankenstein and Hamlet In both The Collector and Frankenstein the protagonist’s obsessions become a reality early in the novel and the way in which they react to this reveals a lot about the character and their obsession. In The Collector when Clegg finally stops fantasising about kidnapping Miranda and actually does take her he appears to be completely overcome by what he has done saying, ‘I lost my head, I didn’t know what to do’. This shows that Clegg understands what he is doing is wrong and that he is unsure whether he should have kidnapped Miranda; however it could also be interpreted as sheer excitement as people often ‘lose their head’ when they are overly excited. It also helps to understand the extent of the effect and the power Miranda has over him as instead of being overjoyed that he has achieved what he wanted Clegg appears terrified and worried. This is conveyed through short sentences and phrases such as ‘She bent forward to peer in, I flashed a look down the road, no one, and then I got her in’ that create a quick pace showing his hysteria.
This film shows the importance of how one treats others is more important than how one is made, and this is a product of nurture one receives. In the film, Frankenstein, Frankenstein, the scientist, decides to create a life with his knowledge of science. When Frankenstein succeeds in creating a life, the creature tends to respect and obey Frankenstein’s rules. However, the cruelty of Fritz, Dr. Waldman, and the carelessness of Frankenstein’s duty to nurture the Monster leads to the Monster’s evil behavior. The movie begins with a short narration by the narrator that this is one of the strangest tales ever told; with the two great mysteries of creation- life and death.
In Mel Brook’s classic film Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder’s creature struggles to overcome his revolting appearance in order to prove himself capable of human emotions and reasoning. While Brooks’s work is only a loose adaptation of the classic novel by Mary Shelley, it is worth noting that this specific theme – that moral character is unfairly judged by appearance – transcended both versions. Perhaps Brooks, like the audience that first read Frankenstein, realized that judgment by appearance is one of the most developed themes of the original novel, and one that continues to be the most poignant. Throughout the novel of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley argues that society unfairly judges by appearance, casting out anything that is socially
Frankenstein/Enlightenment In the book Frankenstein the author Mary Shelly names and points out some of the problems of the Enlightenment. This was a time where science and religion were being shaped and exposed to what they could accomplish and fail. One of the Enlightenment scientists who wanted to discover some of the secrets of life was talked about by Shelly and how through his time of research it did nothing but come back to hurt him an make him look bad. Shelly’s writings break down events from the Enlightenment in which they occurred but in a way where certain things were being found that a man shouldn’t have known. Playing God would be the main mistake that had been made.