Upon beginning the creation process, Victor Frankenstein uses the scientific advances of others to infiltrate the role of nature.

"The modern masters promise very little.. But these philosophers .. have indeed performed miracles.. They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breath. They

Frankenstein sees these innovations as overpowering and substantially giving humans the power of god. Frankenstein believes that through these new scientific powers human kind would be served with a positive effect. Disease could be banished and self glory could result. "what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death"(40)!

have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world of its own shadows"(47).

Frankenstein is not concerned with morality. There is never a question as to whether he should create life, only how to do it. "When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time co

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)