Victor Frankenstein Too Far With Science Quotes

Too Far With Science

Creating bodies with two people is the mainstream line of creating life, but when a person with a love of chemistry wants to create life, strange things happen. “His yellow skin scarcely covered with the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips” (Shelley 58). Mary Shelley explores the consequences and dealings with what happens when science is taken too far and when science goes against God and his morals. Victor Frankenstein is an avid reader and is eager to learn and has a desire to investigate things and their causes. Curiosity and research to the hidden laws of nature were his earliest interests. At an early age, Victor saw his mother pass away and realized he did not want to see disease stricken people. He decided to bring life on his own, by constructing a body
The creature begins to explain how he was affected by isolation and having to fend for himself. He studied a family in hopes of being accepted but, only in return having to deal with rejection multiple times. Then, he proceeds to inform Victor that he has become evil through his experiences, even though he was born benevolent. Accepting the fact that the creature himself will be alone, he demands that Victor make a female creature so he does not have to live alone, and Victor accepts, but only resulting in isolating himself and getting to work in creating another life. Victor exposed, “...with obscure forebodings of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom” (Shelley 178). Again Victor is suffering from his decision of going against God and playing with science and most of all going too