Scientific Aspects Of Recreating Life And Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein opens the door for the proposal and investigation of scientific questions that still exist as topics among critics and medical experts today. The general audience initially inquires as to whether or not the scene that brings the monster to life in Shelley’s novel could actually be feasible; one wonders if scientists really have the ability to bring the dead back to life or totally recreate life from dead body parts. Documents show that experiments have taken place where a dead person has been completely reanimated by means of galvanization and electrical impulses, but no known cases exist of actually stitching together body parts to form a new being in the Frankenstein manner. The ever-increasing debate in today’s scientific circles focuses on the possibilities of successful human cloning and the ethical issues backing it up; cloning yields new life from seemingly lifeless parts and shows similar results to Victor Frankenstein’s experiment in the novel. 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). Indeed the monster comes about at the hands of Victor Frankenstein and his stolen body parts alone. No means of sexual or otherwise scientifically accepted reproduction take place in this
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