Pursuit of scientific research can have severe and tragic consequences

Pursuit of scientific research can have severe and tragic consequences

Introduction

Benjamin Franklin was a famous scientist who was interested in the studies of the scientific properties of electrical energy in the 1700's. He actually studied the medical benefits of electricity as well as he also performed the renowned trial with the kite and lightening. In Frankenstein, electricity serve as the device which creates life -- creates the monster. It gives existence to the dead. In the early hours, health check experiments verified this observable fact as a dead frog leg jolted with the injection of electricity that serves as a bridge among electricity and biology and chemistry.

Science creative writing varies from pure fantasy because it explains the reason scientifically. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde is an esteemed medical doctor who experiments that enables him to vary his character and bodily look by ingesting a substance combination. In result, he can turn into another person which is an evil, distorted person whom he named, Edward Hyde. Unluckily, Jekyll finally loses power over this evil face of himself. Mr. Hyde commits murder and finally takes over Jekyll's life, body and soul.

Sometimes, it happens that the research can predict those happenings that would not occur in reality. It can provide you the factual knowledge but cannot provide the fictional knowledge. It only considers the visible world and takes no account of invisible spiritualism. Science actually tells us about the world. Basic study is determined by scientific inquisitiveness and not by the expect that it will be put to sensible use.

Discussion

Mary Shelley has written a novel named; Frankenstein is not only be studied as a literary work of near the beginning of 19th century. She takes science as a very influential entity, and she also recognizes that there are dangers associated with science that are unrestrained. Shelley told about her fear in her science book that tells about Victor Frankenstein. At the end, his use of science has also resulted in failure. She told about the discoveries of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. She explained about the discovery of nature of electricity. Robert Louis Stevenson is a writer of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is a novel of horror that has emphasized on actions ensuing from scientific testing. The novel incorporates the elements of fiction, a literary genre that focused on a fictional tale of how scientific experiments affect human beings for better or worse. It also explains about how the discoveries and technologies affect the individual.

Both the scientists, Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll, in spite of their various dissimilarities in reasons for their formation have common things. They have scientifically tried to go beyond individual restraints exclusive of thoughts of the ramifications. The comparison of the two scientists proved that their creation, Dr. Frankenstein who has abandon his work, while, Dr. Jekyll becomes more enthralled with his new-found tempting control and sinfulness.

Dr. Frankenstein feels romanticized sorrow and pity for ...