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[10th January 10, 2012]

The Role of the Scientist in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Introduction

Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus" written nearly two centuries ago, left a deep mark in the European and American literature. Today we can safely say that "Frankenstein" is at the origins of the genre of science fiction. This haves a dismal, but unusually strong energy story about a scientist, a unique invention, which was a, disaster for him and others, anticipated reasons for the pessimistic number of modern science.

Victor Frankenstein was a young, energetic and hopeful boy who was driven by desire of knowledge and had an exploratory nature. He loved science, particularly alchemy, and had a very strong interest in reading and studying the works of the old alchemists. Victor was always fascinated by the secret of life and was constantly trying to come up with ways through which he can keep people from dying. He was shattered after his mother's death and saw death as an irreparable evil. With the passage of time, natural philosophy became the main focus of his study, and after several years of learning, he thought that he has found the secret of creating life and thus started working on it.

Victor had become so obsessed with his project that he had given up his health and even his life, the novel tells that his face was going pale because of study, and he was getting skinny too. For two years, Victor gathered the body parts of the structure that he would give life to, he selected beautiful features for his creation like lustrous black hair and pearl white teeth. When finally the creature was brought to life, Victor was immediately filled with disgust and regret since the beautiful features that he had chosen for the creature had formed a horrid combination with watery eyes and the eight foot tall creature looked like a monster. Victor was terrified by his creation and he disowned it there, and then. He wanted to destroy the monster, but somehow the creature managed to escape from Victor's laboratory.

The monster was left to live on its own for next two years when he had a variety of experiences, some through interaction with Mother Nature, others while observing others and through interaction with them and more through his own mistakes. Whereas till then Victor tried to carry “out of sight, out of mind” attitude since he had completely disowned his creation, wished that it was never a part of his life, and he should never get to see the monster again. When Victor hears about his brother's murder and as he reaches home, he at once figured out that the monster was responsible for the murder. Victor decided to travel across the country to find the monster, after 1 month he ran into the monster where the monster made him listen to his story, as in what happened to him in the last two years. The different incidents he ...