I, Robot vs. Frankenstein

I Robot, directed by Alex Proyas, is a film that shows how modern technology will advance within the years; making people question their everyday lifestyle. In I Robot, the main character Detective Del Spooner, had us follow his journey on questioning societal expectations. This all began from the creation that Dr. Alfred Lanning, who created the robots as well as V.I.K.I. The main NS5 robot in the movie is named Sonny, who questioned his purpose of life as a robot. This Film was designed to have us question, understand the rules and order in situations and evolve with society.

The monster starts off attempting to save a little girl from drowning but is falsely accused that he is trying to kill her instead so he is shot in the shoulder. This is the first step to the monsters rage and anger. He then goes off and kills Henry, Frankenstein’s best friend, after Frankenstein refuses to make a female monster. He then kills William, Frankenstein's younger brother, which at this point in the story seems to be the time where all innocence is lost and the monster has all of the power and cannot be stopped by anyone. The monster then kills the most important or influential to Frankenstein, Elizabeth his wife who was an orphan and adopted by the family at a young age. Elizabeth and Frankenstein go to a hotel for their honeymoon, the monster breaks into their room and strangles her. “She left me, and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house and inspecting every corner that might afford a retreat to my adversary. when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.” He is overcome with grief and vows to return to Geneva to make sure his family is

Frankenstein had the idea that creating these creatures was not just an advancement in his knowledge but an advancement to nature around us, because of this everyone should “owe [our] being[s] to [him]”(55). With Frankenstein’s technological point of view, he fails to see the horror he is about to animate. Before the monster had been brought to life Frankenstein had suppressed his repugnance for his monster. Frankenstein ignores his repugnance all the way til “the dull yellow eye of the creature open[s]” and “breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart”(58). Frankenstein finally regains his repugnance after months of ignoring it, but in order to see his repugnance, he had to create a monster of “breathless horror and disgust”(58). Frankenstein is the fictional example of his warnings of the repugnance of cloning come to life.

Shelley’s Romantic novel Frankenstein (1818) compares and reflects values of humanity and the consequences of our Promethean ambition against the futuristic, industrialized world of Blade Runner (1992) by Ridley Scott. The notions of unbridled scientific advancement and technological progress resonate with our desire to elevate humanity’s state of being, mirrored amongst the destructive ambition to overtake and disrupt nature and its processes. The disastrous implications of overreaching the boundary between progressive and destructive power and knowledge are heeded through the ultimate and inevitable loss of self and identity, transforming humanity into a form of monstrosity.

I can compare Frankenstein to the movie I saw by Tim Burton, Frankenweenie. They are similar but instead of a human body, it was a dog and the mad scientist was a young boy named Victor Frankenstein. The young Victor Frankenstein brings his dog back to life after being hit by a car for a science fair project while the real Victor Frankenstein wanted to create a real life human. Just like the real Frankenstein monster, the dog brings trouble. In the book, the mad scientist, denies the monster but in Frankenweenie, the young boy convinces his family and friends to like his creation. Some of his classmates had known the young Victor Frankenstein creation and was intrigued to do the same experiment like his but it went out of the standards of

To begin, Frankenstein goes off to college and immediately isolates himself from society including his family and his minimal friends. This isolation has a negative effect on him, even though his isolation can be seen as his own choice. This isolation and focus on his science evolved into a project to create human life. Through this project, the creature is born and this is when his isolation gets even worse. This secret consumes so much of him and he has no one to turn to.

This lead to the creature going off on his own to face a world that is terrified of him. The fear of these people upsets the creature very much and all he wants is a friend. He asks Doctor Frankenstein to make him

In the story of “Frankenstein”, Victor Frankenstein creates a creature. When the creature awakens Victor is so disgusted in his creation, he runs away and becomes severely depressed.. The creature searches for Victor, but ends up finding a little boy who turns out to be Victor's little brother, William. The creature kills William, and Victor comes home for the funeral. This is how the creature finds him. While reading the book you notice that all the Creature ever wanted was for Victor to love him. He kind of saw him as a god, and as his creator he must have to love him. The Creature soon realizes that Victor despises him. So he proposes a deal, Victor creates a wife for him and he’ll leave. In the process of creating his wife victor stops, he tears all the pieces apart. The creature slowly ruins Victor's life. When Victor is on his deathbed the Creature comes to him and cries. The Creature ends up killing himself shortly after. Throughout the book we learn to understand why the creature did what he did. He hurt Victor because Victor hurt him. He just wanted to be accepted by Victor, above anything else. We see the story through Victors and The creatures perspectives. Victor hated that he created the creature and he thought that he was his biggest mistake, and the creature just wanted to be

In Frankenstein the creature wanted to be loved by Victor, but his master betrays him and pushed the monster down the path of revenge until he has nothing left. The creature came into the world happy and innocent, but as time went on he realized that humankind and his master had betrayed him. He wanted help people like De Lacy by cutting wood for them and getting food,u but he introduces himself to them, they made it so “[his] heart sunk within me as the with bitter sickness, and I refrained”(97). Human kind and not only his master betrayed him, but this anger manifested as anger towards the Frankenstein family. The creature felt everyone was trying to betray him and go against him so he turned him evil and made the creature want to seek

Over time, he begins to believe this. The Creature picks up on words that are thrown at him and commences utilizing them to describe himself. Instead of being simply him, he becomes “ ‘deformed,’ ” “ ‘loathsome,’ ” and “ ‘odious’ ” (108, 117). The world causes him to get lost in himself, trying to figure out who he truly is (116). Although the Creature’s self-worth is wavering, he decides that he is not “ ‘utterly unworthy of [love]’ ” (119). The Creature admits, however, that he hates himself more than Victor could ever hate him (209). After viewing the relationship of this duo, a hate stronger than that which exists between Frankenstein and his Creature seems impossible. The Creature is disappointed in who he has become and ashamed of the crimes against the innocent that he has committed (207). Eventually, Frankenstein’s creation asks him to make for him a mate to have as a companion. The Creature requests that she “ ‘of the same species, and have the same defects’ ” as he does (132). However, if this new creature is identical to him, then she will not only possess the parts that the Creature likes about himself, but also those he abhors about himself. Every time he sees this being, he will see her flaws that he contains as well, thus reminding him of all that he hates about himself. Instead of making his life better, this mate will only cause pain as the Creature is

Most Americans have some idea of who Frankenstein is, as a result of the many Frankenstein movies. Contrary to popular belief Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a scientist, not a monster. The "monster" is not the inarticulate, rage-driven criminal depicted in the 1994 film version of the novel. Shelley’s original Frankenstein was misrepresented by this Kenneth branagh film, most likely to send a different message to the movie audience than Shelley’s novel shows to its readers. The conflicting messages of technologies deserve being dependent on its creator (address by Shelley) and poetic justice, or triumph over evil (showed by the movie) is best represented by the

Frankenstein has promised his monster that he will make him a wife, another monster to be his companion. He travels to England with his friend Henry Clerval, then continues on alone to Scotland. He rents a small hut, in which he begins his work on the second monster. As he works on the creature, he muses over how excited he had been when he created he first monster, but this time he is filled with horror. Frankenstein is afraid that the two monsters will be able to procreate and will unleash a race of monsters on mankind. When the monster shows up to check on Frankenstein's progress, he destroys the female monster. The monster is enraged by this, and promises Frankenstein that he will be there on his wedding night to exact revenge. The monster leaves and Frankenstein destroys all evidence of his work. He the goes to Ireland, where he is immediately arrested as the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Frankenstein soon finds out that the person who was murdered is his friend Henry Clerval. It is clear to Frankenstein that this is the work of the monster and he becomes feverish and sick. After two months in jail, fighting illness, he recovers and his father comes to see him. Frankenstein is acquitted of the murder, as he was in scotland at the time it occurred. He then travels home to Geneva with his

The monster 's appearance causes his creator to abandon him and prevents him from normal human interaction. He is forced to learn about the world on his own and spends most of his time watching others. Frankenstein is not the only one negatively affected by his existence. In the process of bringing the monster to life, Victor had deprived himself of rest and health, causing him to fall ill for several months. Shortly after his recovery, Victor learns his younger brother has been murdered. Frankenstein has killed his creator’s brother and framed an innocent girl to get back at Victor for abandoning him. After the girl is executed, Victor becomes consumed with guilt knowing he is responsible for two of his family members deaths. The monster does not stop there, he goes on to kill Victor’s friend Henry and fiance, Elizabeth. Because of his creation, Victor is haunted by depression and guilt for most of his life and died a lonely death hunting Frankenstein.

While the cyborg may not function in quite the same ways as Frankenstein's monster, it does serve as a precursor to the cyborg. Specifically stating that Frankenstein's creature is not a cyborg, Donna J. Haraway writes

The creature argues with Frankenstein and tells him that because he created him, it is Frankenstein’s responsibility to make the creature a mate, which he believes will make