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Modern Day Frankenstein Comparison

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In Marry Shelly’s book, Frankenstein, the monster in the book is described as an ugly and a unworldly creature. The creature was made from a dead corpse and other old body parts by a scientist named, Victor Frankenstein. The creature kills Victor’s brother and the blame is placed on Justine Moritz, who is executed for the creature’s crime. The creature is made out to be a murder but also has somewhat of a kind nature as we see by him helping a young girl from drowning. This version of the monster who today we call Frankenstein is much different then the original creature (Frankenstein) as written in Marry Shelly’s book. If we look at a modern version of Frankenstein, in particular, Frankenstein from the movie Hotel Transylvania, we can see …show more content…

Modern day Frankensteins often symbolizes the idea of a creation gone wrong. Sometimes modern day stories of Frankenstein often explore the idea of man playing God, and the consequences that can come from that. Although, both new and old Frankensteins share that idea of consequences of man playing God, In modern times most versions of Frankenstein aren’t depicted as a horror story like Marry Shelly’s creature but are depicted more for kids. According to Christopher P. Toumey, a professor at the University of North Carolina, “The mad scientist stories of fiction and film are homilies on the evil of science. Here are modern-day exercises in the tradition of antirationalism, which argues that rationalist science is dangerous to one's spiritual well- being because it is too clinical, too abstract, and that the scientists who control the mysteries of modern secular knowledge are unaccountable to conventional standards of morality. As exercises in antirationalism, particularly its Gothic horror variant, mad scientist stories mine the raw material of these anxieties and then shape them into moral narratives that purport to explain whence comes evil in the guise of science, which affects our moral standards of today.” Professor Toumey makes note that mad scientist stories like Mary Shelly’s, can affect peoples morals. The big moral question that Frankenstein poses is the question is it ok for humans to create living humans or creatures. In my opinion I would argue it is not because it’s like trying to play God. As shown in Marry Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, a human playing God and trying to create another living being doesn’t turn out will. Victor’s creature ended up murdering Victor’s brother and an innocent character is convicted and executed because of the creatures crime. This leaves Victor with a lot of guilt and leads to Frankenstein being a cast out. This reason alone

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