How Is Frankenstein Unpredictable

Frankenstein: It is not easy to try to play God.

Frankenstein is one of the earliest science fiction written by Mary Shelley. In the story, a young smart scientist Victor Frankenstein, who is trying to create a new creature from the dead, dies in regret after his creation of a strong and ugly “monster” that kills his beloveds and innocent people. Someone said Victor Frankenstein is like the God since he creates a new life but what actually he does is just twisting the dead. Although he successfully creates a living body, the failure of not being able to make his creature get accepted by the other people still proved that he is just a crazy scientist who is trying to interrupt the way God creates life. Furthermore, all the human being are unable

to reach that goal no matter how hard they try or how advanced technologies they use.

First, Victor does not give the creature a chance to be well constructed, or more likely, he is not able to.

From the ugliness and the strength of the monster, it is obviously that Frankenstein puts a lot of efforts to give his creature a good look. However, when he first sees the look of it, he gets really upset. “His limps were in proportion, and I had selected his feature as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!” The way how Frankenstein described the creature shows how his expectation turns into desperation. The unexpected ugliness of the creature is actually predictable. Frankenstein spends longer time to figure out how to build a perfect body but ignore the construction of the inside of the creature. It looks like this unbalanced development turns the creature to a

“monster”.

Second, Frankenstein does not create a creature; he rebuilds a body from the dead. Comparing to the new births, death is always ugly, which can also explain why Frankenstein’s creature has a horrible look. It explains why Frankenstein cannot replace God in another angle.

Third, when Frankenstein sees how ugly (which is not reversible) his creature is, he does not even try to accept him and give him instructions, instead, he chooses to abandon his new-born brainchild and ran away. The one who hates his own creation would never be a good creator. If Frankenstein does not leave his creature alone, maybe the Monster will be influenced by humanity and be able to feel the love. It may turn into a happy ending story. Although some may argue that there is a possibility that the creature was born with the evil in his soul. However, if a human being was treated like a monster all the time he or she might kill people from their own species as well. Also, there are some proofs that show Frankenstein is friendly and innocent at the beginning. When the creator met Frankenstein again, he explained his feelings and his blame to Frankenstein, his creator: “I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who own me nothing?”

From Frankenstein, the other human-beings’ attitude to the creature illustrates that nobody is capable to create lives like God creates us.

We never have the ability to accept anything that is not like us; even the things we create. We don’t have heart to embrace everything or to forgive everyone like what God does. Also, it is easy for us to judge someone by his or her look. When the creature ran out of Frankenstein’s place and entered a small village. He described the treatment he received from the people over there. “One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and the one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons.” The creature had to run away. Till now, he finally starts to understand that people are unfriendly to him although he is not aggressive and he is just like a human infant that knows nothing. The creature had a second chance to not turn into an asshole after the abandon of Frankenstein but the way of his creature’s peers treated him announced his

destiny.
Frankenstein’s failure is a consequent result. The restrictions of human beings restrict the ability of us. No matter how perfect that Frankenstein could build his creature, he would still see him or her as a monster cause in his deep heart and everybody else we could never see anything that we created as equal as our human. Frankenstein is just a meddler of God; he will never achieve the degree as high as God is.