Jonathan Idolor
2013-14792
Science has always tackled life.
Whether the study of diseases and death or birth and life, many driving
questions for researches are on the mystery of living. Frankenstein, like other
scientists, was curious about life. On the advent of the discovery of
electricity, he decided to combine dead parts of human bodies, put them
together, add some electricity, and he has life.
It was
portrayed to be dumb, just like a child that has just entered an unfamiliar world.
Like a child with an extremely overpowered body, a brute that didn't know how
to control itself yet, quickly labeled a monster due to its lack of
understanding. This life, which has just come into the world, was afraid of all
these foreign surroundings and the things it didn't know. In the book, Frankenstein,
himself, rejected his own creation. Given these circumstances, you can’t really
blame the creature to lash out physically. But the people, faced with something
that could overpower and kill them and couldn't talk properly, were afraid and hastily
labeled it as a monster and justifying its destruction.
Yet it
learned. And we could see that all it wanted, like any other human being, was
to be accepted and be happy. Here we see science as a power to create and destroy;
a source of grief wherein a monster is created to live in a world of misery and
rejection, but also a source of happiness from which he could have a partner to
live with. We also see the morality in a monster, although it may still be a
rough display of it, in wanting to love and protect. On the other hand the
consequences of the actions of the people have led to their own dismay, making
an enemy out of someone who just needs a friend.
Walang komento:
Mag-post ng isang Komento