Mary Shelley strongly portrays the opinion that scientific progress in the extreme will result in suffering, when it passes beyond the bounds of what nature will allow. Humans are flawed creatures that will continue to do unnatural types of wrong and suffer for it. Everyone surrounding the criminal human will be also be negatively affected, and the society in its entirety will be subject to suffering at the hands of nature. Humans generally look for comfort in nature’s surroundings because deep down they too are of natural origin, so when a human strays too far from the right and natural they will pay for their betrayal and imperfection of person. In the novel Frankenstein, there are many examples of death and torture and disruption due to
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Every member of the Victor Frankenstein's family died in a short span of time because he crossed the line of what was allowed in nature. Besides Victor's blood family, even his best friend and true love came to a tragic end due to his flawed judgement. Henry Clerval acts as Victors doctor and friend and saves Victor's life more than once, but upon an unfortunate series of events suffers a brutal death by Victor’s monster. His love Elizabeth on the other hand is murdered in the same household as Victor on their honeymoon. He went to investigate a suspicious noise and in the same minute the monster breaks into Elizabeth’s room. She was always a selfless and beautiful spirit, but when Victor entered after hearing her cry, he saw her, “lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed... her pale, distorted features half covered by her hair” (Shelley 186), she was ugly with featured distorted as if in pain. Elizabeth was close to Victor so she suffered a terrible death that she did not deserve that incidentally triggered the death of her father. Even the monster himself, usually at blame for the physical destruction, undergoes a loss of his own.The scientific progress that was key to causing the suffering affecting everyone was the monster himself. So when the monster blackmails Victor into pushing the limit on nature a second time and resurrecting another creature onto the earth, by that point Victor has come to the conclusion that the suffering is not worth the pain being felt by almost everyone in some way. When he is almost finished with the second abomination to set loose on the earth he thinks better of it and instead destroys “the creature on whose [the monsters] future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge,withdrew” (Sheley 157). Because the monster craved a companion just a possessively as Victor wanted
Every member of the Victor Frankenstein's family died in a short span of time because he crossed the line of what was allowed in nature. Besides Victor's blood family, even his best friend and true love came to a tragic end due to his flawed judgement. Henry Clerval acts as Victors doctor and friend and saves Victor's life more than once, but upon an unfortunate series of events suffers a brutal death by Victor’s monster. His love Elizabeth on the other hand is murdered in the same household as Victor on their honeymoon. He went to investigate a suspicious noise and in the same minute the monster breaks into Elizabeth’s room. She was always a selfless and beautiful spirit, but when Victor entered after hearing her cry, he saw her, “lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed... her pale, distorted features half covered by her hair” (Shelley 186), she was ugly with featured distorted as if in pain. Elizabeth was close to Victor so she suffered a terrible death that she did not deserve that incidentally triggered the death of her father. Even the monster himself, usually at blame for the physical destruction, undergoes a loss of his own.The scientific progress that was key to causing the suffering affecting everyone was the monster himself. So when the monster blackmails Victor into pushing the limit on nature a second time and resurrecting another creature onto the earth, by that point Victor has come to the conclusion that the suffering is not worth the pain being felt by almost everyone in some way. When he is almost finished with the second abomination to set loose on the earth he thinks better of it and instead destroys “the creature on whose [the monsters] future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge,withdrew” (Sheley 157). Because the monster craved a companion just a possessively as Victor wanted