Friday, May 8, 2009

Frankenstein takes it to the next level

Yes, I think that Victor Frankenstein took his quest for knowledge too far. There are other ways of learning about life and death, rather than taking old human parts and putting them together to make a new human. I think that sometimes there is a limit to how much we can learn, since we are not supposed to play god. You can learn as much as you want to about life and death, but also to act upon these discoveries is a different thing, because you are using this knowledge to play god. I think that Frankenstein could have done many things differently, he could have perhaps done his experiment in a way where a human being would not have been created. I think that if he would have just brought to life a few body parts, then that would have been a lot more safe, and that he would have been able to share this new discovery rather than be afraid to share his discovery with the rest of the world, and Justine and his brother could have been saved. I think that there is no limit on what we can learn, but that there are limits on the experiments based on the knowledge. Victor could have found other ways of expressing his genius creation, rather than create something, play god, and then not take care of it. Not only was this experiment allowing Victor to play god, but he wanted to keep his creation a secret, and yet he let it get out and did nothing about it. It is irresponsible experiments like the one Victor did that we should be safeguarding the advancement of knowledge. We can do this by restricting the types of experiments that can be performed, and monitor how they are done, we do this in our time, while Victor does not. This hinders the advancement of the knowledge that Victor gained and thus left his experiment a total disaster that has destroyed lives.

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