Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Ethical Issues
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein mythical novel addresses ethical issues. Over the years, there has been controversy about how Mary Shelley’s defines human nature and how a human reacts in various situations. To explores, Mary Shelley’s build utilized the relationship between morality/faith and sciences, which she brings it throughout the novel with the advancement of science. As science improve, Frankenstein continues to explain the controversies. Mary Shelley’s address the limit and restrained the society had placed on scientific in defining the quantity of human. The novel wrote in the early 19th century, still foreshadows the world’s most scientific research today. Therefore, this paper will concentrate on the definitions of nature, the controversy of science and morality, the limits to scientific inquiry, and how Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein ties in with today’s society.
Frankenstein uniquely explores human nature through character development and the creature. Also, as the human creature, he established the limits on what he does in response to his deformities. According to Jara et al. (2018), human beings are born with innate ideas, that there existed an invisible force, which they assume and believe in it. With such a mind, the human brain is capable of having beliefs and knowledge without ever obtaining pieces of evidence, which is profound when face reality. These thoughts stimulate the romantic imagination even more, which are analogies with the life and electricity ideas of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein novel. Since by 1816, electricity had been powerful forces, Mary Shelly’s demonstrated the scientific can be used to support life. She connected electricity force with exists in nature, implying that the world is indeed filled with unseen forces and energies. Mary Shelly’s address that there exists life force, which holds the possibility of God-like power which might be infused into the body from outside. Here, she implies that scientific research is good for the advancement of human life and nature. Introducing such forces could spark into the lifeless being, and led to return old habits.
According to Botting (2018), morality limits human ability; the existence of force beyond human imagination has created fear and limited human advancement. Thus, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein tackle such an ethical issue, like Victor Frankenstein’s human being, will remain parlayed with indecision and fear until it is too late. Botting (2018) concern that human being might not use incredible technology to advance human life rather full mistakes about their failure today’s humanity possesses an unprecedented capability, which was limited with ethics in the early 19th century. Nevertheless, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein novel also warned on the consequences through Victor Frankenstein, who fails morally. His creation becomes a mockery of life, and he desires to kill the scientist who brought him back. This depicts Mary Shelley’s reflection of scientists and the consequence facing scientific agenda. White (2018) argued that the creatures in the novel serve as an existential mirror is a symbolic representation of hidden scientist curiosity.
In conclusion, Marry Shelly’s Frankenstein draws boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate science. These boundaries shift the morality in human nature in context with the scientific agenda. The novel illustrates the human view to advancement science at expenses to create monsters, which makes him lose control of God’s complex creatures. Thus, Marry Shelly’s novel seems not interests in social, moral consequences as well as rejects people’s reactions to controversial emerging scientific practices. Instead, suggest that human beings should continue with curiosity but develop a new way to communicate with the public effectively.