The Philosophy Behind Frankenstein

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The Philosophy behind Frankenstein Frankenstein is a revolutionary novel of its day but also revered for its deep complex meaning behind the story even until this day. There are a lot of topics that can be taken from this book and really analyzed and make the reader think if these boundaries are crossing moral and ethical lines. Moreover it's important to understand how much philosophy and sophisticated thinking is put into this novel, it challenges a higher level of thought. Frankenstein is an early work of what science fiction could be but it also challenges real world issues that still hold up today, whether it be if experimentation is ethical, stem cell research or even the preservation of life. The Philosophy behind Frankenstein is shown …show more content…

Shelly has been around intelligence her whole life and is not only able to write about it but is also able to understand it. Shelly is able to challenge this philosophical way of looking at the world by creating a character who plays with force that go over the ethical line and ultimately causing his own destruction. I don't believe that there was ever any intention of creating Victor frankenstein as this monocle character who dares to defy the impossible and try to be come this god like figure, anything that Victor did he did in the name of science. Victor is a scientist and despite his obsession he did have good intentions at heart they were just very poorly executed. Through Shelly a lot of these elements were used in this novel and they sparked this idea of if this were to happen in real life is there enough faith in humanity that we could trust someone to do right by a monster such as this …show more content…

Was the monster predestined to endure all of this or if Victor actually showed it love and affection would the monster turn out different(Watkin). The truth is we do not know and we could argue it all day but we simply do not know. The monster’s destiney may have had a point to it all a long and his existence may have been just the sole person to teach Waldman a lesson or maybe rather something different. Fate is fickle it's something that only God really has the answer

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