Scientific Boundaries In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein is a novel that tells the story of a scientist who attempts to create a human-like creature. This creature is made up of body parts from a graveyard, which leads to the question of if the scientist, Victor, had overstepped any scientific boundaries. Victor had morally made the monster for unethical reasons along with how he made it. There are many instances in science today of scientists overstepping boundaries whether those are morally, ethically or just in the scientific world, along with instances in this book. In the scientific world animal testing is a back and forth argument. Arguing that it pushes past boundaries that scientists shouldn’t cross, using animals for our own gain. However, other on the topic argue that

Victor had known it wasn’t done before and wanted to go past human nature. Along with this, for Victor to make this human like creature he needed body parts. In the process of trying to create this creature to worship him he had to get the body parts first. In the story Victor states that, “Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm” (89). Despite the fact that it was a church graveyard and that graverobbing was a punishable crime at he time Victor still went ahead and did it. At any cost Victor was going to create this creature even if he had do something wrong or made him morally for the wrong reasons. Its purpose was for, "A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption” as stated in Marry Shelley's novel. The motivation behind the creation was wrongful, and pursuing that he went past and pushed many moral and personal boundaries as well as scientific boundaries. Overstepping these were so easy for Victor because he had so sense of any moral issue with

Scientist have been overstepping boundaries in many parts of the scientific world, one of these being animal testing. Animal testing is when scientist test on animals and inject them or mutate their genes for a human gain, typically with no gain for the animal. The National Library of Medicine posted an article on the flaws and harms of animal experimentation, these flaws can be put in these, “...three major conditions undermine this confidence and explain why animal experimentation, regardless of the disease category studied, fails to reliably inform human health: (1) the effects of the laboratory environment and other variables on study outcomes, (2) disparities between animal models of disease and human diseases, and (3) species differences in physiology and genetics.” The first condition being the influence of laboratory procedures and environments on experimental results. The conditions in these experiments show that, “animals in laboratories are involuntarily placed in artificial environments, usually in windowless rooms, for the duration of their lives. Captivity and the common features of biomedical laboratories—such as artificial lighting, human-produced noises, and restricted housing environments—can prevent species-typical behaviors, causing distress and abnormal behaviors among animals.” These types of conditions all effect the behavior of the animal and are