Frankenstein 5

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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)!
Shelley characterizes Frankenstein as a modern a mad scientist. One who fails to look at the moral and social implications when attempting to play god. Frankenstein gets obsessed with the power to master nature and create a new life. In creating life, and ultimately the creature, Victor Frankenstein seeks unlimited power to the extent that he is taking the place of god in relation to his creation. "A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me"(52).
Frankenstein believes that there may be little end to his power. "I might in process of time renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption"(53).
In order to create the new life Frankenstein must look beyond moral obligation and ...

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