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Frankenstein : Morality - College Term Papers

Frankenstein : Morality

Morality. It has been questioned by people, honored by people and revered
since the beginning of time. Yet even today not one person can say what is
morally right. It is a matter of opinion. It was Dr.Victor Frankenstein's
opinion that it was alright to create a "monster". Frankenstein's creation
needed a companion. Knowing that his first creation was evil should the
doctor make a second? With the knowledge at hand, to Dr.Frankenstein, it is
not at all morally correct to bring another monster into the world.

Looking at this probelm with his family in mind, the doctor begins his work
on the second monster. The first monster threatened Frankenstein and even
his family. The monster angrily ...

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moral sin of creating another monster he may be rid of both
monsters forever. "With the companion you bestow I will quit the
neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt monster to the
doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor, if and when he,
finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that the monsters will
not keep their promise and stay in Europe envoking fear into townfolk.

The good doctor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good
of the world. The monsters can potentially take over whatever they please.
"A race of devils would be propegated,"(pg. 163) thinks Frankenstein to
himself in his study. The monsters, if powerful enough, could possibly take
over Europe. Frankenstein realizes that he can not possibly doom the world
to benefit himself. "Shall I, in coold blood, set loose upon the earth a
daemon.."(pg. 162) argues Frankenstein with his creation. It is not morally
right for one person to unleash such a terror on the ...

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Added: 8/21/2004 04:14:40 AM
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