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Summary Of No Woman Born By C. L Moore

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Mankind has its views on matters that puts us at a crossroad. The crossroad we stand at is whether an event will take us toward the Heaven, Hell or Prevail Scenario. In the short story “No Woman Born” By C.L Moore the main character Deirdre dies in a fiery death and is save and put into a mechanical body. Deirdre embodies the prevail scenario, but her friend and doctor view her in a different light. Her doctor Maltzer sees her as being a step toward the Hell Scenario, while her friend Harris sees her in the opposite end of the spectrum as a step toward the Heaven Scenario. Something as simple as saving a human life has put the three of them at a crossroad. The Prevail Scenario states that “humans are picking and choosing their futures in …show more content…

It takes more than just an uninjured brain. It takes strength and courage beyond common, and—well, something more. Something—unquenchable. Deirdre has it. She’s still Deirdre. In away she’s still beautiful"(4)” Not only does this show the example of mankind’s will to carry on it also shows that Deirdre overcame a difficult transition from a human body to a metal one. Since Deirdre decided to carry on in this new body she effectively changed her future thus allowing her to prevail over her …show more content…

Harris sees the imperfections that Deirdre has in this new body but accepts them and instead views them as something that makes her beautiful which can be seen as the Heaven Scenario. Deirdre’s survival is an unimaginably good thing that happened and Harris sees this an increase in beauty to her now. The Hell Scenario is the complete opposite of the Heaven Scenario and “almost unimaginably bad things start to happening” (RE184). While Harris and Deirdre had a more positive outlook on Deirdre’s outcome from the incident, Maltzer views what he has done as terrible and unimaginably bad thing. Maltzer at one point compares himself to Dr. Frankenstein and says to Deirdre: ““I’ve made you vulnerable, and given you no weapons to fight your enemies with. And the human race is your enemy, my dear, whether you admit it now or later” (26). This shows that Maltzer believes that he has done a terrible thing by preserving her life and he fears that mankind will go after her once they come out of this haze and realize she is no longer human but an android of sorts. They may eventually go against her and fall into the Hell Scenario if they view her as something unimaginably

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