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Human Discovery In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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DISCOVERY IN HUMAN BEINGS. Scientific human discovery is something that keeps hitting the headlines time and again in our world. So and so has invented this or that for this reason. One is on a scientific exploration of mass. Spaceships, artificial and mobile satellites, customized automotive name it. All manner of inventions and discoveries have been there ever since science was discovered and are there up to date. Many more are expected to come with the level of advancing technology in the days to come. Technology in itself is a discovery otherwise we would still be living in the stone age period. This crazy and technical discoveries are driven by various motives in the people who engage in them. We are going to see Frankenstein and Walton …show more content…

Their ideas are literally an impossibility but somewhat they see themselves as extraordinary beings who have the miracle performing effect Jesus had. Walton’s imagination of the North Pole is that of a beautiful and sunshine bright land, a complete opposite of the reality. Frankenstein’s unpossessed knowledge leads him to create his creature with noble motives of saving the human life. They are both consumed by their goals and desire for discovery. Their crazy ventures turn each of them into a danger for themselves and those around them. Walton poses a great danger to himself and his crew. They will all freeze into ice should they get to the north pole. Frankenstein’s monster has wiped out all his family and is now seeking revenge on him too for leaving it without a mate and making it unable to find one too. What a catastrophe! These men have a desire for fame of discovery. They want to do something extraordinary that their fellow human beings have never achieved and thus get global recognition for that (Moers 1996). They want to benefit the whole world with their discoveries and be useful to mankind. Walton wants to create a passage over the ice to open up his ‘beautiful’ inaccessible north pole while Frankenstein wants to restore human life by defeating death when he creates his creature. These dreams of theirs hardly happen even in the movies but they are so

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Maybe Walton finally sees the monster because he gets lonely again after Victor dies and longs for someone else to talk to so he then imagines the monster since Victor disappeared from his imagination and all he wants is someone to talk to since he has no one. So not only is the creation a figment of Victor’s imagination but Victor and the whole story is a figment of Walton’s imagination. Citations Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, www.biography.com/news/mary-shelley frankenstein-i-frankenstein-movie. “How Humans Deal With And Survive Extreme Cold.” Science of the Cold How Humans Deal with and Survive Extreme Cold, www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/cold_humans.php.

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