Why Is Frankenstein Unethical

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein created a monster who lived a horrible and short life. However, could the monster’s existence have been perfect, if the means of his creation were different? This should be taken into consideration when deciding if Frankenstein’s creation is acceptable at all. And, one must factor in this acceptably when constructing a definition for the word ethics. The terms ethical and unethical science are easier to put into context than defined. In the context of the novel Frankenstein, Victor’s creation of the monster was unethical scientific practice, because he used the deceased body parts of people without consent, he “played God” without preparing for the worst case scenario, and he lacked …show more content…
With that being said, no one should ever feel the emotional and physical pain that the monster had felt during his unfortunately too short life. The monster directly expresses his suffering in the novel Frankenstein, when he said, “... I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome”(Shelly 119). The monster wouldn’t have experienced all this pain, if Victor would have planned ahead and thought about the consequences of his actions. That is a pivotal piece of information in understanding why his experiment was unethical; furthermore, it is the horrendous effects like these that classify experiments as …show more content…
Trying to prove Frankenstein is “playing God”, is about as easy as proving God exist; however, we can draw a line of ethical science based on the consequences Frankenstein faced. Deciding if creating a person is unethical scientific practice, is up to the individual's core religious values. However, the monster did some terrible stuff, including, murdering Henry Clerval, Elizabeth, William, and horrifying the cottagers. By creating the monster, immediately rejecting him, and leaving him (without knowledge of the world) to be judged by closed minded people in 1818, he became responsible for his actions. Knowing that one can infer, if Frankenstein had religious, moral values and was worried about “playing God”, then he would not have made the monster in the first place. Those fatal consequences are why it is important to consider “playing God” to be unethical; in addition, without considering a religious point of view, it is possible to make an unethical decision. Also, a line of ethics needs to be drawn, when is comes to