Though naïve as he is, this only leads to suffering. Ironically this is foreshadowed at the beginning by his own advice. “I seek for knowledge…I hope yours may not be a serpent as mine had been.” Not fit for the role of god victor is disgusted by the being he has created
The monster comments on his bodily composition in the novel and makes a seemingly obvious comment much more intriguing. The monster paves the way for a successful scientific understanding of the novel and the concept of recreating life: “I was not even of the same nature as man” (Shelley 103). The monster makes clear the fact that he came into existence in a fashion far-removed from natural sexual reproduction and human birth. The critic Stanley Crouch explains: “Frankenstein injected into the game the idea of artificially creating life. Scientifically manipulating the forces that underlie existence; subverting sexual coupling as the sole manner of passing on the divine spark” (Crouch 56).
Although Frankenstein created the creature, he and the creature separated right from the monsters creation and they did not encounter each other again and the creature had developed different characteristics and habits of his own. In any possible way, Victor Frankenstein is not like the creature. Victor Frankenstein was born
The “Green movement” at the time was a rebellion against any scientific advancement which would have endangered the future of the environment or destroy it further than it had already been. The didactic style of blade runner explores this fear further; this is seen through the use of artificial eyes. This suggests the false wisdom of humanity. Whilst Shelly’s novel indicates a fear of the future, it still consisted of nature. However, Blade runner has very limited amounts of nature and shows a industrialized and scientifically advanced society thus the distinctive differences between Frankenstein and blade runner reveal more about the connections between them.
Finally, the creature interrupts Victor's narration and we get its point of view, leading up to its request for a companion. This quote comes at the very end of Chapter Two of this amazing tale and refers to the way in which the course of Frankenstein's education and his particular focus seems to have been set out from the dawn of time by Destiny and was unavoidable. At the end of this chapter he narrates how he became disenchanted with his previous focus on Natural Philosophy and was drawn more to the "solid foundations" of mathematics and its associated disciplines. Looking back on this time of his life, Frankenstein describes it as: “...the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars.” Yet, at the end of the day, even this noble effort of "the spirit of preservation" was not enough to deter Destiny, who is too "potent" to be defeated by such a strategy. Frankenstein clearly feels that his education and its end goal of creating life in the monster was decreed to occur by Destiny, and as such, even temporary distractions would not deter him from achieving what Destiny had set out for him to do.
With this belief Victor is throwing away the idea of natural occurrences being good, and saying that his creation from dead pieces of various bodies can develop an elite being unimagined by GOD. Another place we see humanity distancing themselves from nature, is when Victor locks himself away from society to delve deeper into his scientific studies. He only sees what can be done with science, and because of this GOD whom is natural, became secondary to science. Science is a very common theme in both Brave New World and Frankenstein; the constant obsession with furthering progress and discovering the unknown led both the society in Brave New World and Victor in Frankenstein to leave natural occurrences behind and attempt to better themselves with
In the novel and in the film, there are many differences in the character, Dr. Victor Frankenstein. In the novel Frankenstein wants to create life because he is infatuated with the idea of doing what hasn’t been done before. When the creation finally comes alive, Frankenstein is proud, but shortly after the creations “birth” he finds it hideous and scary: “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! - Great God!
They are either feeling guilty because of their subconscious or they are being punished by a being of “higher” power. Gary found out that there are consequences for not obeying “Gods Law”, the same goes for Adam and Eve. So overall the moral of the story: if you don’t obey, you will pay. Gary knew what he had done was wrong, he says “I knew sin was what you took and didn’t give back”, and he was
“For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelly, Ch. 5, paragraph 3). Victor’s creation on the other hand is displayed as malicious and demonic in the beginning of the story but we see his more human side as the story progresses, as he wishes for a companion, “I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects.
The easy way is often referred to as the wrong way and in some cases this is true, such as when Victor ignored his creation. By not facing his fears he was granted the absence of the monster, but only contributed to emanate problem just on the horizon. Victor’s tone of boastful arrogance soon turned to forlorn warning when he “Had finished and saw, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled his heart” (Shelley, 42). A fantastic example of the “easy way out” could be found in The Importance of Being Earnest. As Jack quickly finds out, lying about your true name to win the girl of your dreams can be successful, but also have consequences.