Frankenstien Case

I found several things to be interesting at the Frankenstein discussion on Thursday, March 17th. The panel of speakers each had their own take on some element of the story and used their expertise as professors to discuss in detail what they found. One speaker talked about how science needs to be watched and monitored. He related this idea to the creation of the monster and what bad came from it and also related it to the nuclear power plant in Japan that recently exploded due to a natural disaster. As humans, we have the power, technology, the science, and the ability to create and do very serious and complex things. However, there is the implication of how much should we do and how dangerous could the consequences be? This reminds me of the controversy over cloning humans. We are fully capable of making clones but what would a world be like with millions of clones running around the world? So I agree with this speaker in that science needs to be closely watched and monitored and some science should be kept in discussion instead of actually creating something dangerous.

Another speaker spoke about the innocence of the monster. One part he zoned in on is when the monster saw a little girl throw a flower into a pond. The monster’s thought process was something like “pretty flower, pretty girl” so he did not see wrong in in turn throwing the girl into the pond. The monster had a mind of a child and needed to be treated right from wrong. He was not committing a wrong necessarily because he did not know differently. We must consider that the monster is not fully responsible for causing all the harm he did in Frankenstein because he was not properly raised.