How Does Frankenstein Violate Our Moral Standards

As a human race, we continue to gain scientific knowledge with and without moral restraints. Inventing new cures for diseases and creating new products to help people around the world are helping people and saving lives everyday, but some discoveries are going unnoticed and unchecked and could potentially be violating the code of ethics that nearly every human being is raised with. With all of these great advancements, how far can we take it before it stops being beneficial and starts to violate our moral standards? Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the tale of resurrecting an inanimate being into a living creature. Frankenstein is told as a cautionary tale to the people living in the time period of the industrial revolution, but also successfully admonishes readers in modern times. Victor Frankenstein is driven by his scientific ambition and caught up in his obsession of creating life out of nothing. He wants so badly for his experiment to be successful that he sacrifices his own health to complete his goal. Then the monster is created, but the outcome is so hideous that Victor ends up running away, turning this infantile creature loose on the world with no …show more content…
We can achieve this by being checked by our own governments and not beginning our experiments before getting them approved. Society will gain knowledge acquired by scientists as well as the comfort of knowing that no harm will be caused by the world's continual amelioration.We must strive to discover new things, but doing something morally wrong to achieve this is not the way to accomplish these goals. If we destroy humanity by fading our morals all for scientific advancement then the knowledge will be worthless. As Pierre Schaeffer once said, “The world changes materially. Science makes advancements in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn’t