Moral Dilemma

Introduction

In Shelley's Frankenstein, it's interesting to use the text to ask the question, whose interest's lie at the heart of science? Why is Victor Frankenstein motivated to plunge the questions that bringing life to inanimate matter can bring? Victor Frankenstein's life was destroyed because of an obsession with the power to create life where none had been before. The monster he created could be seen as a representation of all those who are wronged in the selfish name of science (Baldick, 66).

We can use Shelley's book to draw parallels in our modern society, and show that there is a danger in the impersonal relationship that science creates between the scientist and his work. It seems to me that Shelley was saying that when science is done merely on the basis of discovery without thought to the affect that the experimentation can have, we risk endangering everything we hold dear.

Discussion and Analysis

From the analysis of the text, we can say that Cohen had many mixed feelings about the process of giving her eggs to the couple that wanted the "perfect child". Her feelings in the beginning of the essay is that she wants to go through the process just for the money and we all know that money makes you happy till it is spent. As I kept reading more of the essay and the decription of the process of fertilizing the eggs and freezing them, I realized that this is an option that Cohen didn't want to be a part of. At the end she said that she realized this wasn't something she wanted to be a part of because she realizes that "once a couple starts choosing a few characteristics, shooting for perfection is too easy-especially if they can afford it. The money might have changed my life for a while, but it would have led to the creation of a child encumbered with too many expectations." With this qoute it shows that Cohen rethought over what she was going to do and decided not to do it (Mellor, 18).

The way that experts feel about creating a perfect child is that it is wrong because a child should be conceived the way that it has been since the beginning. If one of the spouses is infertile there is always the route to adoption. Adoption is good because there are to many children that are left to defend for ...