Frankenstein

The Doctor wants to be able to give life. He creates the monster in a way that is to his liking and more or less ends up being an extended version of himself. Cloning and the monster,both forms of artificial life, are at odds with religious viewpoints. In this case the Doctor tries to play the role of God. The monster begins to feel things and experiences things as a new born baby would. “When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees. I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers. I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved.” The monster is adapting to human life through trial and error as a baby would learn how to walk. Based on how the monster was looked down on it imposed a form of solitude on the monster. This reflects the Doctor because he wants to create life to find some form of fulfillment. He doesn’t give this project up until he finally gets it. Frankenstein shows the discrimination and tension that would become of the world if cloning took place. “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.” Human cloning would tear apart a world community that took several millennia to bring together, and would result in no winning sides, just one distraught and torn apart world. The same idea applies to Frankenstein and the Monster.