Frankenstein

Frankenstein delved deep into the natural sciences and natural philosophy. He studied hard and took long hours to figure out how he was going to reanimate a dead body. He took parts from several bodies and put them together, and made sure his creature would be very agile and strong. Frankenstein created an 8-foot, burly, hideous, and misjudged monster. I do not think that he went to far in his search for knowledge.

You can never go to far when searching for knowledge. Frankenstein wanted to find out if he could bring a human being back to life. He didn’t just find a whole dead body and do it that way; he created his own human body. No one had ever even reanimated a normal body before, so doing this was taking it a step farther. Although I say that he did not go too far in his quest for knowledge, I do think that he was ill prepared for it; too young, not wise enough, did not think of the future, ect…

No one else had ever brought a human being back from the dead before, so he did not have the luxury of having advice from others. He also didn’t tell anyone of his experiments so no one could help him or give him advice. He needed a group of people with him while he was making his creature so that once the creature came to life, they could keep him from running away from it. After the monster came to life, Frankenstein ran from it, and basically left it unattended in his apartment. He, the monster, could have attacked someone, burnt down the apartment, or done something else horrible, but Frankenstein did not think of that. He only thought about his himself and his personal safety.

 Frankenstein did not think of the after part of creating the monster, he only wanted to see it come to life. Once he realized that he had no idea what to do with the monster, he ran and hoped to leave the problem to another person. Frankenstein was not prepared for the consequences of making this monster, and once the consequences came, handled them horribly. I will stand by the fact that if he had older and wiser scientists with him that they would have thought of these things and helped him out, and the monster would not have been left alone to escape by a frightened man.

In the world that Mary Shelley created in Frankenstein, reanimating human life is possible. If Frankenstein had not done it, someone else would have. I believe that man thirsting for knowledge is just human nature and that there should not be boundaries to it. Frankenstein was not wrong in creating a live human being, but he was not prepared for it. Creating human life is very elaborate. You have to think of all the things that could come from creating the life, and Frankenstein did not do this. So Frankenstein had the right to go as far as he wanted in his search for knowledge, but I believe he should have been better prepared and should have thought his experiment through, not just until the monster awoke, but until it returned back to death.