Artificial Intelligence In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein thinks that everything is alright now, but Elizabeth has a premonition that the monster will return, and she warns her fiancé that she fears some harm is going to befall him. At the same time, during the entire village’s celebration, the father of the dead girl carries her lifeless body though the streets for all to see. The shock crowd stops its celebration, stunned and outraged over the death of Maria, and they demand justice from The Burgomaster (mayor) and local police. By nightfall, the angry mob has organized into torch carrying search parties to find the murderer. Frankenstein is determined to destroy the creature, and leads one of several groups looking for the monster, up the mountainous terrain.

"A Hermit is simply a person to whom society has failed to adjust itself." (Will Cuppy). In the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley we follow the life of Victor Frankenstein in 18th century Germany. Shelley displays a recurring theme of isolation and how it drives once good people to do terrible things. If civilization does not adjust itself to a creature of any kind they will be forced into isolation and ultimately self destruction.

Shelley addresses romantic conventions in Victor to convey his loss of identity. Victor is impatient and restless when constructing the creation, so much, that he does not think about it’s future repercussions. One of the great paradoxes that Shelley’s novel depicts is giving the monster more human attributes than to it’s creator [p. 6 - Interpretations]. This is true as the monster seeks an emotional bond, but Victor is terrified of it’s existence. The monster later reveals, “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurred at and kicked and trampled on [Shelley, p. 224].” Victor’s lack of compassion is rooted from the inability to cope with his reality. He distances himself from others and is induced with fainting spells [Shelley, p. 59]. From this, the nameless creature exemplifies Victor’s attempt to abandon his creation to escape his responsibilities. His creation is described as, ‘wretched devil’ and ‘abhorred monster,’ eliciting that the unobtainable, pitied identity [Shelley, p. 102]. The act of not naming the creature reveals Victor as hateful, and unnaturally disconnected to his own created victim.

Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is about Victor Frankenstein’s excessive knowledge in the sciences and his refusal to accept his own creation. Frankenstein starts with a healthy curiosity in the sciences that eventually turns into an unhealthy obsession he can no longer control. He undergoes a drastic transformation because of making experiments that eventually result in his biggest one yet; the monster. Shelley applies the themes: the danger of too much knowledge, ambition, monstrosity, isolation, and Nature vs. Nurture throughout the novel with the characterization of the monster and Frankenstein.

John Locke is one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and is famously known for asserting that all humans have natural rights. He also believed that humans are born with clean slates, and that the environment humans grow in, especially at a young age, has massive influences on aspects of their personalities, ideals, and motivations. Shelley was most definitely influenced by this claim when writing Frankenstein. As the reader, we can see the monster that Victor Frankenstein creates grow up alone, without guidance, and be formed by the experiences it is put through while trying to survive. Its emotions and beliefs throughout the book were merely a result of its experiences as it encounters the harsh reality of the world. Mary

In Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the creation, made from scraps of corpses, was built by Victor Frankenstein, a man fascinated and obsessed with the knowledge of life. Following the creation’s rouse, Victor immediately abandons him with no desire on keeping or teaching his new being. Because of his lack of nourishment and direction “growing up”, the creation goes through a process of self-deception. He endures a period of deceit by believing that he is a normal human being like everyone around him. But as time progresses, he learns to accept how he is alone in this world and disconnected with everyone. Because of the creation’s lack of guidance and isolation, he grows up feeling unwanted.

As some of you already know, bioengineering is a way of using artificial tissues, organs, and other components to replace those that are badly damaged or missing body parts. You could even use it to replace limbs, such as arms and legs. The way they get these body parts is by genetically engineering them to reproduce skin/bone cells into the tissues that later form the parts needed after a matter of time. Now…*deeply concerned inhale*….. the monster that Victor Frankenstein has created is far beyond the concept of bioengineering.

Knowledge is a useful tool man uses to enhance life and grow as a species. What Victor doesn’t realise is there are some things man is not supposed to figure out. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor’s thirst for knowledge brought with it a path of suffering and devastation.

Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, is a science fiction book telling about the life of a monster created by Victor Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein is studying science in Ingolstadt at University. While there, he decides to create a creature using old body parts from the bodies of deceased others. Frankenstein abandons the creature, out of horror, and the creature goes out on his own without knowledge of the world. We learn about how the creature finds his way in the world, his feelings, and adaptations to human behavior. Through the thoughts we hear the creature has, we may think that is good and intelligent, and may be able to make contributions to society. We later learn through his actions that he is a horrific creature, harmful to society.

that tells the story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a horrifying, intelligent but foolish creature in a scientific experiment. The whole story of Frankenstein is full with different elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written in 1818, it follows a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but instead creates a creature larger than the average man and more powerful. Frankenstein and his creation, both struggle with the idea being human through the novel. While Frankenstein is human by nature, the creation still portray many human aspects. Being human is to be apart of a community where people relate to others and ultimately accept others because they are the same. The creature is not human in the way that he is constantly rejected from society because of his appearance, action, and his overall being.

Many times, we are often forced to question our standing, as humans, in the universe in light of how both humanity and the world progresses due to the continuing increase in technology as the years go on. Many are for continuing onwards to become more scientifically and technologically-oriented as time passes, but others claim that going to far with technology will prove to be the undoing of mankind. In the nineteenth century, decades before anyone truly conceived of human-made artificial life, Mary Shelley, the wife of the famed poet Percy Shelley and author, wrote a horror story by the name of Frankenstein, an enduring story that may have even sewn the first inklings of Science-Fiction themes into a novel about a man who plays God and creates

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley explores the fight between man and nature through the story of eager scientist Victor Frankenstein, who artificially creates life from the body parts of the deceased with disastrous consequences. By highlighting the intense power of nature, Shelley comments on the folly of attempting to subjugate nature to bend to one’s will.

Quote: He stated “I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe…..I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation–deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”(Page 88).

Introduction: Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is a book with a deep message that touches to the very heart. This message implies that the reader will not see the story only from the perspective of the narrator but also reveal numerous hidden opinions and form a personal interpretation of the novel. One of its primary statements is that no one is born a monster and a “monster” is created throughout socialization, and the process of socialization starts from the contact with the “creator”. It is Victor Frankenstein that could not take the responsibility for his creature and was not able to take care of his “child”. Pride and vanity were the qualities that directed Victor Frankenstein to his discovery of life: “...So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein-more, far more, will I achieve: treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation”[p.47]. He could not cope with this discovery and simply ignored it. The tragedy of Victor Frankenstein and the tragedy of his creature is the same – it is the tragedy of loneliness and confronting the world, trying to find a place in it and deserve someone’s love. The creature would have never become a monster if it got the love it strived for. Victor Frankenstein would have never converted his creature into a monster if he knew how to love and take responsibility for the ones we bring to this world.