In a similar fashion, Will Rodman contradicts nature by perfecting the drug ALZ-112 which fixes Alzheimer's by attacking the genes of host cells with a retrovirus. However, the study of Alzheimer's has more potential for good than reanimating life does (because curing Alzheimer's displays more realistic potential and a higher likelihood to help a large audience of people). But, Rodman still crosses the fine line that determines science does too much when he starts to treat his specimens like inanimate objects and conducts mediocre science. Rodman turns the world into his personal game of chess where he controls what happens, when he wants it, and where he wants it. Rodman's game of chess parallels Frankenstein raping nature as he too digs into
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The Creature is attacked instinctively by villagers and repudiated by the De Lacey's (an especially hurtful event since the Creature became so acquainted with the De Lacey's and developed sentiment for them). The violence and rejection the Creature feels leads to his evil nature later on in the novel. Additionally, the Creature begins to feel loneliness and despondency—this leads to his plot of blackmailing Victor Frankenstein for a female companion. For example, at the end of the novel when talking to Walton, the Creature explains his wrongdoings with, “For while I destroyed [Frankenstein's] hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned”; the Creature never hated anything when he was created; right out of the “womb” he was not the violent and torturing creature he later became (231). Alternatively, the Creature gains hate as life progresses and the ugly sides of society begin to leave an imprint on his impressionable mind. In Mary Crockford's analysis of Frankenstein and loneliness, Crockford finds herself agreeing with the fact that Frankenstein's hate was caused by loneliness. She states, “he becomes what psychiatrist Selma Fraiberg predicts for the …show more content…
For example, In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, when Rodman's experiment with Bright Eyes fails, Gensys deems the chimps useless and due for extermination. This very emotionless aspect of science trades emotion and empathy in exchange for science that does not care about the world, its specimens, and the well being of conscious creatures. Rather than harming the chimps, Gensys could have donated them to a sanctuary; instead, in the name of profit, they euthanized them—even going so far as to kill a mother chimp. These types of actions are widespread in science. For instance: animal testing; animal testing done for experimentation usually produces less-than-stellar results, done to save money, and leads to extremely cruel procedures done on innocent and conscious animals. Vivisections (where a scientist dissects an animal live to observe its bodily functions) are another form of animal cruelty and immoral science. As Bishop Barron puts it, “when [scientists] are untethered to moral restrictions, the sciences can indeed become dysfunctional, even disastrously so” (Barron). Setting scientists on the loose to do and study whatever they please can wreak havoc. Science can learn from Rise by seeing that it needs to consider morality in its methods to avoid disasters and unneeded cruelty. Science always needs regulation. Whether regulation will prevent a mad
The Creature is attacked instinctively by villagers and repudiated by the De Lacey's (an especially hurtful event since the Creature became so acquainted with the De Lacey's and developed sentiment for them). The violence and rejection the Creature feels leads to his evil nature later on in the novel. Additionally, the Creature begins to feel loneliness and despondency—this leads to his plot of blackmailing Victor Frankenstein for a female companion. For example, at the end of the novel when talking to Walton, the Creature explains his wrongdoings with, “For while I destroyed [Frankenstein's] hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned”; the Creature never hated anything when he was created; right out of the “womb” he was not the violent and torturing creature he later became (231). Alternatively, the Creature gains hate as life progresses and the ugly sides of society begin to leave an imprint on his impressionable mind. In Mary Crockford's analysis of Frankenstein and loneliness, Crockford finds herself agreeing with the fact that Frankenstein's hate was caused by loneliness. She states, “he becomes what psychiatrist Selma Fraiberg predicts for the …show more content…
For example, In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, when Rodman's experiment with Bright Eyes fails, Gensys deems the chimps useless and due for extermination. This very emotionless aspect of science trades emotion and empathy in exchange for science that does not care about the world, its specimens, and the well being of conscious creatures. Rather than harming the chimps, Gensys could have donated them to a sanctuary; instead, in the name of profit, they euthanized them—even going so far as to kill a mother chimp. These types of actions are widespread in science. For instance: animal testing; animal testing done for experimentation usually produces less-than-stellar results, done to save money, and leads to extremely cruel procedures done on innocent and conscious animals. Vivisections (where a scientist dissects an animal live to observe its bodily functions) are another form of animal cruelty and immoral science. As Bishop Barron puts it, “when [scientists] are untethered to moral restrictions, the sciences can indeed become dysfunctional, even disastrously so” (Barron). Setting scientists on the loose to do and study whatever they please can wreak havoc. Science can learn from Rise by seeing that it needs to consider morality in its methods to avoid disasters and unneeded cruelty. Science always needs regulation. Whether regulation will prevent a mad