| Term Paper Title | Frankenstein |
| # of Words | 911 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 3.64 |
Frankenstein
Every spring there is a plethora of new animate beings. Creation is a yearly event for most animals. There are countless children born each day. All living beings procreate. Victor Frankenstein was a scientist, and the goal of science is to discover new information, and Victor Frankenstein was simply being a scientist and creating new information.
When Victor Frankenstein created his monster, it could be compared to genetic engineering or cloning of today. Scientists are trying to re-create life from another exact life form through cloning. They are trying to make the creation of life better and humans that are better quality, without disease or deformity through genetic engineering.
Since the beginning of time humans have been obsessed with the idea of where life comes from, and how it is created. Charles Darwin originated the idea of evolution. Another theory that is used to explain the origin of life is the big bang theory that states that life was created from a cosmic explosion. Yet another theory on the origination of life is the existence of God and that God created the earth and all of the life on earth.
Victor Frankenstein is exactly like the scientists of today. Victor Frankenstein is trying to make a human being from other, deceased human beings, this could be compared to cloning today, making one creature from another. The possibility, or theory of genetic engineering can guarantee that humans would be without deformity, affliction or frailty. Victor Frankenstein may not have chosen parts for his monster, or human that were necessarily beautiful, but Victor Frankenstein tried to make his product as earthborn as possible.
Victor Frankenstein was simply doing the same thing that scientists have always been trying to do. Victor Frankenstein is trying to be like Charles Darwin and explain where life comes from. According to Victor Frankenstein, life can come from the appendages of other human beings. With his creation Victor Frankenstein disproves the idea of a celestial creator.
"A new species would bless me as its creator and source; Many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me." This statement, said by Victor Frankenstein himself, could, in theory, disprove all that has been said thus far. But, it can also be taken another way. Victor Frankenstein is saying that he will be exalted for creating the monster, an avant-garde way of creating a human. But are not all scientists celebrated for their discoveries? Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone has a telephone company named after him, people have posters of Albert Einstein hanging on their walls, the story of Benjamin Fra...Read entire document
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