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  • Essay / Critical Analysis of Victor Frankenstein - 1671

    Life is precious and death is inevitable. Love is the only thing that holds our words together, because without it, life is boring and meaningless, and in reality is not so different from death. Trying to conquer that which takes life would require a great and powerful amount of love, and yet in Frankenstein, quite the opposite was aimed at the same goal. Victor Frankenstein succeeded in creating a living being derived from death itself, but he condemned his scientific discovery from the very beginning of its creation due to its lack of scientific morality, the power that naming holds, and his unconscious decision to deliberately make his discovery hideous and unlikeable, so that he could not be regarded as a being belonging to himself and his colleagues. Instead, he strove to move forward, keeping his discovery to himself and ignoring the clear warning signs of a potentially volatile experience. He believes that the lack of current scientific discoveries is due to fear of the unknown, and not to the morality of the situation: “Where, I have often asked myself, did the principle of life come from? It was a bold question and one that has always been considered a mystery; yet how many things would we be on the point of becoming acquainted with, if cowardice or negligence did not hold back our inquiries” (Shelley 37). Victor doesn't wait to think about what might happen if his experiment fails, in which case all his work in the field of study thus far would become meaningless. would mean that all the work of his adult life would have lost all meaning. However, if his experiment had succeeded, as it unfortunately did, Victor would not have even considered the limits that would have been broken, both scientifically, socially and religiously. His successful creation of life from death would have destroyed any thought that God had created and cared for all life, for Victor's creation would not be of God but of man, and such a realization would have shattered many religious communities at the mere thought, much less if they saw the specimen itself. The scientific community would have been thrown into chaos following this discovery, both breaking the bonds of all current knowledge and paving the way for future scientific breakthroughs.