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Name :- Goswami Mahir Pari C.
Roll no :- 21
Topic name :- Write a not on
Science Versus
nature in
Frankenstein
Submitted to :- Department of
English
Papername :-The Romantic Literature
E-mail:-goswamimahirpari786@gmail.com Enrollment no :- 20691084201180021
Nature vs. Science
Throughout the novel Victor constantly seeks solace through nature immediatel after multiple traumatic deaths of his famiily member The serene beauty of the natural scenery he vesets often diminishes his feeling's of sadness worry and guiilt and proovides him with a somewhat restor
sense of hope in the world This portrayal of nature as a source of comfort recurs commonly in the genre of Romanticism
In contrasted the novel also incorporates Victors immmense fascination:s with the vast opportunetees that science supplies While studying in Ingolstadt he obsesses over the idea of manipullating life's and isolates himself with his studies to accomplish this feat and expand humanitys power However as bringing the dead back to life goes against the natural flow of nature it is a major Pandoras Box in the field of science Because of this nature rejjjects Victor and punishes him through his creatttion The monster harms ever yone who he cares about and although Victor finds momentary comfort from his woes through nature nature can no longer act as a longlasting source of protection for him Instead the monster often encounters and worries Vicctor during his nature trips and thus slowly destroys his imprreession of nature as a serene place of relaxations By the end of the novel Victor becomes so consumed by hatred for his creation that his solely wishes to hunt down the monster no longer depending on nature nor seeking any serenity from it
Through Victors stor
Shelley may have wanted to warn us of the dangers of the vast power of scienceed In an era with such rapidly evolving science and technolog the advancements may come sooner than we can prepare our society to deal with the consequences At the end of the novel Walton decides to abandon his ambitious yet dangerous expedition to the North Pol reflecting on Victors disastrous mistake of taking too big a risk for science
The comforting and soothing qualities of nature revitalize the characters This romantic theme is present though out the novel as both Victor and the monster return to nature to be comf orted Nat ure seems to sooth both characters and this is strange because Victor is a man of science and the mon ster is most defiantly unn atural
About this time we retired to our house at Belrive This change was particularly agreeable to me The shutting of the gates regularly at ten oclock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me
I was now freee Often after the rest of the family had retired for the night I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water. DoverThrift ed
Call of Duty
There is a sense of duty and responsibilllity in creatting some-thing as importan'st as a life Victor almost as a parent births a creature then fails to take responsibili for the life he has created. He does not realize that his actions of creation have conseqqquences Victor fails in his duty to care for the life he has crreeated Because the monster is not loved or carred for he un-leashes a striing of violent acts on his creator''s family
Victor like a father has a duty to care for the life he created and consssequently he lost all he truly cared for
I expected this reception said the daemon
All men hate the wretched how thenmust I be hated who am miserable beyond all living things Yet you my creator detest and spurn me thy creatur to whom thooou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You pu rpose to killll me How dare you sport thus with life?!? Do your duty towards me and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind If you will comply with my conditions I will leave them and you at peace and lbut if you refuse I will glut the maw of deaths until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.
Nature vs. Science
(the natural vs. the unnatural)
Througgghout the novel therte is this constant battle between science and nature that is the unnatural and the natural
Victors creation represents science or the unnatural Frankenstein s crea-tion of this mo0nster throws nature into a state of imbal-ance which causes the eventtual destruction of Victor and his entire familyy Also' as this is a frame tale Victors loooss in the batttle betw-een nature and science is shown to be a warning for Walton as he too probes dangerously close to discovering nature's secrets
It's productions and features may be wi-thout exa-mple as the phen00omena of the heavvenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes What may not be expected in a country of eternal light!?!? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may reguuulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever
You seek for know-ledge and wisdom as I once did and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you as mine has been .
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a famous novel written by Mary Shelley The novel warns about the misuse of science and relates the phenomenal assapect of scientific's disasssters with the accidentaled creation of a monster named Frankenstein as a result of an un-successful scien-tific experiment The name "Frankenstein" the novel's human proottagonist is often incorrectly used to refer to the monster itself The novel resonates with philosoph-ical and moral ramifications creating a con0flict bet-ween Science and Nature along with the responsibility to cultivate nature themes the good versus evil and the social ambition to dominate against readers attention and consideration of the most sensitive issues of our time
Frankenstein is one of the most acclaimed and thoought-proovoking stories that warns about scientific research and the “abuse” of scientific processes Shelley'ss novel is a metaphor for technology that can cause mullltiple problems in the modern world The novel mainly revolves around the dangeers asso-ciated with the acquisition of know-ledge and the happpiness of an uninformed or illi terate person who treats his native town as his world The novel provides hidden praise for a lack of knowl edge that can lead to enjo ying the sim ple pleasures of life, rather than indul ging oneself in destructive acti vit ies with the misuse of knowledge and scientific explanat ions
Science's is more than facts and prin ciples which have been acce pted on the basis of the knowl edge gained by syste matic studies A scientific process is the common pathway which is the basis for knowledge discovery
The good or bad consequences resulting from scientific know- ledge are not the main concerns of scientists despite the powerful impact of these implic ations Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein” shows how knowledge discovery may influence the Earth in an adverse manner when a scientist does not consider the aftermath of his actions
In the innovative novel Mary Shelley notifies a grabbing tale of unimaginable happenings in which several dead body components are conveyed to life through one man's obsession with information and science Victor Franke nstein becomes engros sed with the concept of conveying life to an inan imate object but not ever recognizes the obliga tions he will have to the monster
Altho ugh Victor prim arily dedicates a large piece of his life to conceiving his masterpiece he expe nds more of his life fearing and battling his monst er. Victor seems to disre gard any blame he has for his creation and only feels guilt in unleashing such a monster, other than guilt in leaving behind the monster
Instead of taking liabi lity for the being he has conveyed to life, Victor wastelands the one-by-one an d obscurely changes the blameless animal into a monster Victor neglects any respon sibilit ies consi dering his creation and by rejec ting him love learning and a companion in humanity Victor keeps the blame for the mons ter's crimes The discovery by Victor was not a fully formed human being rather this experiment produced a deformed and defiled creature resembllling human
In the book Frankenstein we see the juxtaposition of nature and science Does science trump nature or does nature take the crown??? We argue that nature wins out in the end
Dr. Victor's Frankenstein is a man of sci ence. He creates his monster through his knowledge of science and how to recreate dead body parts In the creation of the monster science wins out Science is what created the monster and gave him life
but it does not win out in the end
The monster runs awa y and contin ually watches a fam ily live their lives Throu ghout this time the monster is living in nature and living off nature This is where the monster learns He learns to speak he learns how geography and he lea rns about emotions It is no coincidence that Franke nstein’ s monster leearns all of this out side of the lab and in nat ure This is also the place that the monster has some self-aware ness and figur es out who he is He develops emotions and learns what love and caring isl He is attacked by the family when he tries to talk to them but he doesne’t fight back even knowing he could tear them apart, because he cares for them The monster learns about himself and becomes more human outside in nature
On the flip side Frankenstein himself becomes less happy less human and more miserable without nature
He is cons umed in his science and turns into a somewhat bad person When he is at home he is depressed and the only time he can gain some semblance of happiness is when he is out in nature.
While we see the creation happ en in a la b science we see a lot of the intera ction between the two men, Frankenstein and his monster, happening outside, on an ice patch or moun tain nature
There is no doubt a juxtap osition between good and bad happy and sad and nature and science Science is looked at as trying to harness nature and create it and while this is tru nature is where the monster grew it is where he became self-aware.l The monster was created in a lab , but he eventually went back to nature and assimilated into nature once againWhile science tries toplay god no matter what happens nature will run its course. The natural order of nature will prevail no matter what Nature is according to Frankenstein a more powerful force than science
Nature versus nurture is a debate of importance of one'’s qualities when born or of their personal experiences leading them to the point where they are today
“You got your green eyes from your mother and your freckles from your father. But where did you get your thrill-seeking personality and talent for singing?”
Kimb erly raises a question that has been asked for centu ries, “Do you le arn this gro wing up, or did you genetically inherit these traits??!? One of the themes of Frankens tein is nature versus nurture The author Mary Wollst onecraft Shelly was born and raised in London
England .l Shelley’s first and most famous novel was Frank enstein. Victor Frankenstein the main character in the novel creates a creature using
it is still a great er evil to me that I am self-e ducated: for the first fourte en years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' boo ks of voyage” The nature of every young boy is to be outside and play with their friends Buttt since Walton enjoyed reading his Uncles book s, he spent a lot of time al one and did not have many fri ends This conti nued throughout his life and even up to the point on the ship Also reading about his Uncles voyages gave Walton an ambition to go out and explore his World Yet Waltonno’s father was dying and his guardianl, Walt on’s Uncle, did not let him have an adventu re of his own, "These volumes we re my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that r egret which I had f elt, as a child, on learn ing my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seaf ari ng life" After read ing his Uncles books, Walton wan ted to live a life like his, to go out and make his own advent ures. But since Walton’s fath er was dying, he was held back from what he truly wa nted. This made his ambi tion for adventure gre ater and grea
ter Once Walton had inherited a large sum of money, it made his dreams poss ible. Walton had listened to his Uncle and been secl uded his entire life but when the oppor tunity arose he was able to go to sea,
"You are well acquainted with my fai lure a nd how heavily I bore the disappoi ntment
But just at that time I inher ited the fort une of my
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