Responsibility In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Responsibility is the duty to deal with or take care of something that is in your life.Scientists and inventors have a great deal of responsibility for what they create and how it affects the world. It’s up to the scientist rather they to want follow those responsibility. There are many examples where scientist didn’t maintain their creations or technology whether it be in real life , in movies , or in books. One example could be Silent Springs by Rachel Carson a book about a new chemical called DDT or pesticides introduce to people that are in the agricultural industry to get rid crop harmful bugs that was a good out come of DDT, but communities started using this chemical in their homes, on themselves, causing harmful effects to children

But making new technology can take a turn for the worse if not responsible, sometimes your creations can come back to haunt you. In Shelley’s novel Frankenstein Victor frankenstein talks about the fear of his family safety if he didn’t fulfill his promise to his to the creature saying “I was bound by solemn promise which I had not yet fulfilled and dared not to break, or if I did, what manifold miseries might not impend over me and my devoted family?(Shelley,145). Frankenstein’s fear of not he fulfilling his responsibility to the creature is dawning on him, the thought of his family being in danger or potentially putting the world in danger. The creature is victor responsibility he failed to care of the creature when he created him so now he faces consequences of life or death. According to Shelley’s Frankenstein the creature says that Victor no choice but to provide happiness for him and fulfill his request . The author emphasizes the meaning of the creature’s demand for victor to be one responsible for his happiness she writes “This you alone can do, and i demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede” (Shelley,138). The creature is saying that Victor Frankenstein is the who should be responsible for giving him happiness and it’s is something that he can’t contradict and the only one who can give him what he wants. The responsibility scientist have is to make sure the environment and humans aren’t affected by the new