Mary Shelleys Frankenstein :: English Literature:

Mary Shelleys Frankenstein looks at the consequences of mans attempts to meddle in the creation of life. In the twenty-first century, with its scientific and technological advancements does her story bland have an important kernel for humankind?Steven raiseMary 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 stillhave an important message for humankind?In Frankenstein Mary Shelley is trying to convey many messages, preciselythe 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 hearing thismessage as we ar doing the same social occasion again we have the technologyto create a human be from scratch and nearly enough to choose whatit looks like. Only the other twenty-four hours for example on the news they we reshowing how scientists could choose the sex of a baby.Mary Shelley intended the book as a warning, the story was told deep downthe book as a warning and it was as if Victor Frankenstein was presentmentthe story to the masses 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 soon understand and be able tocreate life. This did not happen but in our time we are realistically squiffy to being able to do these things so the warning is still germane(predicate) as it talks 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 cannister warn someoneabout the dangers of pursuing a dream and so he can tell the storylearn from me, if not by my precepts, and so at least by my example,how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how overmuch happierthat man is who believes his nativ e village to be the world, than hewho aspires to become great than his nature will allow. The terasis in the book to be the result of an experiment as in the aboveanalogy would be the killer bees who were designed 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 bless me as their creator This quote