Technology In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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New technological progress may be the reason for the greatness of modern day society, but it is imperative to know that new technologies are also going to be responsible for the destruction of today’s innovative and advanced world. In Mary Shelley's important novel Frankenstein, she displays man's hunger for new technology, and shows how that curiosity can lead to disaster. Shelley's views expressed are still relevant, and society should react accordingly to her warning. Technology becomes dangerous once it falls into the wrong hands and is abused for selfish or immoral reasons. By relating this ideology to modern times, it is evident that performance enhancing drugs were created to help athletes, but have done more harm than help on America's

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Engineers hold a valuable place in our society. They lay the groundwork for and create artifacts based on the foundation of knowledge that science grants. In our culture, however, it is not uncommon for people to be confused about the role that engineers play. Often times, engineers are portrayed as being skilled and knowledgeable, but lack a sense of moral responsibility for their creations. This mentality is shown in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in which, the inventor, Victor Frankenstein attempts to defy the natural laws of life and death without first considering the consequences. This phenomenon is not just present in works of fiction. The man who designed the atom bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, said to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,

Giving life to an inanimate or deceased body may sound like an old witch tale or plain nonsense. Through Victor Frankenstein’s struggle to create a “monster,” he revealed something deeper and through curiosity he pushed the limits too far to come back. Some limits are set for a reason, but still the temptation to take one more step remains. Mary Shelley gives the reader an inside look to pertinent and sublime human nature in the novel Frankenstein.

The perspective, from which a story is told, causes an influential response from readers to certain issues, characters and conflicts that are found in literary texts. Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, Frankenstein, was published in 1818 and tells the story of a scientist known as Victor Frankenstein who reanimates life in an unethical science experiment. In this novel Walton, Victor and the creature tell their side of the story, through which Mary Shelley uses the effect of a frame narrative so that it provides readers with extensive information about characters such as their intentions, emotions, and thoughts, which allows for each reader to create a unique and individual response to the novel.

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Frankenstein is widely considered a warning from Mary Shelley about the possible monstrosities that can and will result from the creation and expansion of new technology. Victor accelerates his scientific study to the point where he does not fully understand it by creating a monster that he is incapable of containing. However, his family and friends end up paying the price with their lives. In Frankenstein Mary Shelley focuses on the idea that technology is monstrous when it becomes uncontrollable, and performance enhancing drugs in sports show that this is still a modern concern.

Mary Shelly gave an example of how science uncontrolled can lead to disasters, with Frankenstein’s monster killing many in Frankenstein’s family only. Science during the 1800’s scared many, one example is galvanism: a process that involved passing electric current through a corpse. When the process was initially shown to the crowds it invoked fear due to the unnatural and almost unholy movements of the corpse during the procedure as well as making it seem alive again. Frankenstein’s experiments follow this idea, and its consequence is that it horrifies many of the people who see it much like the viewers of galvanism. Science and innovation exploded during this time and it was through the beginnings of Science Fiction novels that we see writers portray how technology originally meant for the good could end up disastrous for humanity, like that experienced by Victor

Before the novel Frankenstein science had never been incorporated into a story so much. Science being a good and bad thing throughout the novel, it comes to be very controversial. In the novel Shelley argues the point that the monster's growth and behavior all throughout the novel is a problem for not only him but anyone around him.

This is mainly due to the numerous advancements in technology that led to the expansion of the internet and social media, reaching all members and classes of society. In fact, as of 2016, nearly 78% of all Americans were social media users, representing a 5% growth from 2015’s 73%. This accentuates the extensive impact social media has on the American society though unfortunately, as the influence of social media increases, so does the proliferation of terrorism. The Internet, and all its cyber platforms, has prominently served as a recruitment tool used by most extremists and terrorist groups along with a means of exchange of radical ideals and

Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram; social media is one of the biggest fads in this present day. People use these apps to stay up to date on all the latest news and events that their friends are doing. Some might even say that people nowadays are almost obsessed with social media. But, what people don't realize is that one of their pictures could be stored right next to a video of a beheading. The Islamic state’s most powerful weapon in their fight against the western countries is social media.

Many of the ideals proposed in Frankenstein, written in the late nineteenth century by Mary Shelley, can be applied to modern day practices. She proposes that an abundance of knowledge and technology can be threatening to individuals and all of humanity if used incorrectly. Shelley 's novel provided society with philosophical insight of the impact of morally questionable scientific and technological research.

Social networks have certainly changed the Internet and in the process, the world of technology. Facebook is indisputably the world’s leading social network, with users in 127 of the 136 countries surveyed. The social network Instagram has become an impressive force, as well. In this context it is clear that today, social networking is not a trend but rather a habit in one’s private life as well in business. It is evident that major social networks like Facebook, twitter, and YouTube are widely accepted and constantly growing their user base.