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Frankenstein - College Term Papers

Frankenstein

- The Question of Morality in the Novel
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 ...

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and possibly

twice the evil, which could hurt or kill his family. When and if

Frankenstein commits the 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 ...

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Added: 8/23/2004 09:11:44 AM
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