Science is a powerful tool for a human to study because it can lead to numerous possible opportunities. Science may be used it several different aspects such as curing sickness, breaking down the process to understand how life works, or to even understand how life is started. But, when it comes to the novel Frankenstein and the short story “The Birthmark” the key characters in these stories take a bold and unusual step in science. In these stories, the two characters have a similar situation, but different intentions and outcomes. The characters try to push their limits on their intelligence playing the role of God by trying an experiment that has not been done before. Along with their experiments, then leads into the consequences of being …show more content…
In the novel and the short story, both of the key characters who were the scientist, both ended up losing someone significantly due to their experiments. First in Frankenstein, since the monster did not have any companionship and could not get to know anyone before they started running off because of his monstrous looks, the monster had requested a second creation from Victor. Victor had agreed at first to the agreement, however ended up changing his mind, destroying the second project. Because of his actions, the result of this was of how the monster got extremely upset, threatening Victor that his loved ones will be the ones suffering. In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, it stated, “‘I shall be with you on your wedding-night’ (168)… She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed (195)… The murderous mark of the fiend’s grasp was on her neck” (196). Unfortunately, the result for Victor was undesirable as shown of how the monster has killed his newly wedded wife on the night of their wedding. This provides evidence, because of Victor not negotiating with the monster, the death of his wife was in the hands of himself and he could have prevented the situation from