Since Shelly’s time, science has become more dangerous and developed significantly. If she looked at science in modern terms, would she still be against interfering with nature’science can be a risk but depending upon the level of sophistication. In the 1800s people living to be 45-50 but now life expectancy has increased. A part of her argument is carried through to the modern era. In Shelly’s opinion, transplants, cosmetic surgeries and treatments are ambiguous because they are all a risk to the natural order of things as well as being beneficial to people’s health. Vector Frankenstein took the creating life matter to extremes. She never faced a particular dilemma where up to date treatments can extend the length of lives. Marry Shelly could have been a member of the 20th century religion entitled the ‘Seventh Day Adventists’. This group believe that if they interfere with nature by using modern medical advances then their souls will be banished to hell for eternity.
The main scientific interests at that time was bringing things back to life and an experiment apparently was undertaken, where a piece of vermicelli was animated. In 1816 at Eton, Percy Shelly, Mary’s husband becomes interested in experiments with electric shocks, which caused the muscles of frogs to twitch. It is possible that Percy demonstrated the technique to Mary. The monster was released from deep down in graves of departed souls just like the genie from the bottle. Once a will being is unleashed it cannot be put back in the bottle forever and the impact on the society and their memories cannot also put back in the bottle.
While Vector was resurrecting a female monster his Id spoke and made him realise how the human race could be taken over by super beings. “A new species would bless me as its creator” this illustrates his first motivation was to become the leader of the new species but in time his “one thought” reversed. His creation would change nature; thy death is the only answer. In reality the ‘hydrogen bomb’ could elevate the sea over Mount Everest and endower the world by embossing its name by touching any surface.
The scream would be sent out of the world and dust wouldn’t even settle in a thousand years. It will shake heaven and hell and death would be a plague upon mankind but its objective is only to bring harmony. Conversely, Frankenstein wanted to lead a new super king race that would bring a new world. The comparison between them shows they were both meant to be beneficial to mankind but both in truth became a danger to the human race.
It comes down to blood; we can never undo a creation but to lock away this hideous, vitreous mortal, death for both; the creator and the monster will need to be undertaken. Even after the deaths, the fear of one concept of the devil returning will be in people’s reminiscences. Shelly convicts, the more cautious you are in applying science, the happier the paradise you live in. Frankenstein’s celestial creation devoted his whole life and as an individual consequences are proceeded. Initially he was horrified by the very look of the monster. He became dizzy with the immensity of his sins.
The seizing view of “his yellow skin. Scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, his teeth of a pearly whiteness”. A more horrid contrast with “his watery eyes… and straight black lips”. This punishes his creation of the fretful wretch staring at him. “I had worked hard for nearly two years… but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room”. It was unbearable to look at, he was unsightly, scandalous, uncivilized my dream of beauty is a nightmare. This was just the start, the start of brutality.
The outcast of the world escaped on the pleasant world. Emotionally it affected his soul. He was unable to study and lay sick with terror about the monsters solitude. Another exhausting side effect came upon swift wind to what he had invented. A child, his brother who hasn’t met life yet but only just began his childhood. Murder of William his beloved brother, by the vile Monster; it was like a poison dagger touching his heart. “…I suffered living torture. It was to be decided, whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow-beings: one smiling babe, full of innocence and joy; the other far more dreadfully murdered”.
These words from Vector were not only words but every syllable was dreadful. This possibly was the worst ever thing could happen but no, a valued member of his family was to be blamed and knowing the perpetrator he was powerless. Justine was going to be executed for something, which Vector enforced. Who would believe his solitude, his creation? Who would believe such a story could possibility be true.
A magnified moral problem is between the matter of life and death. A mutant species could bring our natural life to an end. A choice had to be made, to be or not to be. If he, the creator of will beings satisfied the wretch’s desire of a female monster then he would be the monster that mankind would be after. If instructions by the powerful creature were not complied with then “I shall be with you on your weeding night”. The verdict of this threat is to show a serious tragedy will be inevitable in the future if the sanctity of the monster may not meet. This means he has no love relation. He needs companionship to end his desolation.
This deprived his remaining life, until the day of his weeding night. The monster satiated his words and devastated the life of Victor by murdering Elizabeth. Furious, murderous, insane, lifeless wretch ” I fell senseless to the ground”. The emotional grief put Victor in a mental institute. No words could describe his agony, the incoming pain, mental pain is more demoralizing than physical pain. His emotions made him Scio. He felt like committing suicide and homicide. Now there is only one course of action – revenge. His “one thought, one conception and one purpose” had now switched and the only thing left was for him to end his creation, the beast with his bare hands.
Victors devoted his remaining life to end this paranormal creature. Finally the time came to put Frankenstein’s Monster; the genie back in the bottle where it belongs but not only that but Victor’s worthless life needed to be condemned. “I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul. My rage is unspeakable when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists”.
This is Vectors debut, he made the monster from his bare hands and thereby he will destroy it with its bare tenders. The creator and the creation can be masked but the people of Geneva will always have the memories of the Monster. Shelly also put the idea across that you start with nothing and you finish with nothing. Hence, his greediness was an outcast to his life. Through her novel, Mary Shelly shows the readers potential dangers of science interfering with nature both globally and individually.
