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A five page paper looking at Mary Shelley's novel in terms of its larger social significance. The paper concludes that Shelley hints at topics as far-ranging as the ethics of men playing God, to the importance of a father's role in the rearing of children, to the tragedy of imperialism -- all within the relatively simple story of a scientist who wished to replicate human life. Bibliography lists three sources.
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hints at topics as far-ranging as the ethics of men playing God, to the importance of a fathers role in the rearing of children, to the tragedy of imperialism --
all within the relatively simple story of a scientist who wished to replicate human life. It may be for this reason that at no point in the novel does the
author describe the actual process of assembling and animating the Creature. In part this was due to the fact that Shelley was not a scientist; even though she actually knew
a great deal about science, she had very little experience with laboratories and experiments. But this was also because the technical process of creation wasnt important to her. To be
sure, without creating a monster, and without that monster coming to life in his terribly monstrous form, there would be no novel. But it is the fact that the Creature
is alive that is important, not how he came to be. Consequently, all the snapping electricity and test-tubed laboratory scenes of our imagination come from Hollywood films, not the novel.
Once Shelleys Creature has been animated, it opens its "dull yellow eye; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs" (Shelley, 42). Unlike God, who after each stage
of creation pronounced that it was good, Victor is overcome with revulsion; his creation is very, very awful. "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed
almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips" (Shelley, 42). This is too much for the
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