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  • Essay / Reflective Essay on Frankenstein - 833

    FrankensteinWatching the movie Frankenstein was an experience that really stirred up emotions in me that I thought were normal for anyone who knew Frankenstein and to be melodramatic for a day, but luck to truly understand the emotions I felt watching the film, reading the story of the book of Frankenstein. Reading Frankenstein in depth gave me a better understanding of its content and led me to identify the many social issues it contains. Frankenstein was a difficult read for me, but the reading gets better and more exciting as I get used to the style and language used. Can science have the ultimate power to push human potential to manipulate life itself as something that man can create and give? Playing God is usually accompanied by transgressions committed in science, including the choice of who should or should not receive life, which ultimately leads to serious negative moral consequences. Victor Frankenstein created a creature that he abandoned after thinking about and judging his faults. unacceptable. He gave up on his creation and totally rejects it due to its size and appearance which frightened everyone as they greeted Victor's creature with fear and violent reactions. Shelly's Frankenstein revolved around questions of science and Victor's ambition, moral responsibility, psychological balance and social isolation which must very well remind each of us that humans are the images of God, and humans as scientists by continuing to probe and attempt the power of creation. understand that he must act as a steward of God's creation. The attempt to create a new creature with extreme powers sums up how humans can be so vain in recognizing human abilities and ...... middle of article ...... scientific problems that the author approaches by showing us the science. and its negative aspects. Whether or not Frankenstein created a monster or creature worthy of human sympathy, understanding and respect is still a situation that should remind us that there are still dangers in the misuse of many technological developments as well as human capabilities. Humans who play God must use their abilities in ways that deepen and enrich the lives of human beings, keeping in mind that the effects of much scientific progress can lead to an arrogant aping of God's power and the rejection of what nature or God provides. Therefore, playing God while man is created in the image and likeness of God is not the ability to create life, but is the moral responsibility of humans which echoes the responsibility morality of God as in the ability to act wisely and lovingly..