In the modern society, technological advancements are viewed as the positive and futuristic engagement entrusted with improving the society. However, this may not be always the case. These well-meaning advancements may result to unforeseen sinister results on certain occasions. The tale of Frankenstein is such an example. In his quest for replacing his mother’s death, victor Frankenstein ended up creating a monster then abandoning it after realizing how unfit it was for the normal society due to its abnormal features (Whelan 2011). Victor’s greatest mistake was not creating this creature out of dead body parts but abandoning it. The quest of knowledge and technology should be associated with the responsibilities that become of it despite the outcome whether positive or negative.
Ideally, in the surface of Mary Shelley’s work, the being is the monster of the novel. This is due to its obvious grotesque and absurd features and its inhumane behaviors towards humanity and society. However, on deeper investigation, Victor is the greatest monster in the book. His arrogance and need to be loved and become famous in the society drives him to do monstrous things to become like God. After studying in the university chemistry and nutural philosophy, he believes he has all the skills to create human life and live in fame and wealth as a result. To complete his plan, he results to grave robbery not discriminating even that of his friends (Shelley 67). The fact that he disrespects burial rights and resting of dead souls reveal the true monster hidden beneath the human being. At this stage, he also ignores his family and focuses selfishly on his goals to create human life.
After he completely puts the dead body parts together and electrifies the being, he realizes what a grave mistake that he had committed. At this point of the novel is the point that he would have amended his wicked ways by loving the being and protecting it from the harsh claws of the society. Instead, he abandons its and latter engages in a quest to kill it since it does not befit the society in any way. When he meets with it, he says extremely mean things to further triggering the monstrosities it commits. When it kills his brother and the Frankenstein house servant is convicted, he does not share his knowledge to exonerate the girl (Shelley 110). This shows that he has absolutely little or no humanity to do such deeds and continues to let the people that he cares about most suffer (Whelan 2011). Even when the monster begs him to create a mate for him, he shreds every last piece of parts that would have successfully made her leaving the being to live in solitude, shunning, and hate for the rest of its days.
In conclusion, humanity needs to be extremely cautious of whichever steps taken to create new advancements in the name of making life better. Inventers unlike Victor should seek a morally correct route to achieve progression. To ascertain that the steps of the plan are harmless, they should shy of selfishness and personal gain (Whelan 2011). In addition, they should respect the norms of the society and family values. In the current technological debate, many try to define morality in the steps taken to create progression. Efforts have been directed to curb negative influences and results begotten from some results of experimenting scientist. An example is human experimentation leading to psychological and physiological harm. However, the only way to curb and control such instances is building and reinforcing morality in experimenting minds. This will go a long way towards creating environmentally safe products that will improve the quality of life in the greater humanity.
Works cited
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. The University of Adelaide, South Australia. 2nd Ed. 1831.
Whelan, Daniels. The real monsters in Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. 2011.
