Playing God - Frankenstein and Dr. Moreau

The chase c everywhere leave behind look at the flagitious consequences for scientists who believe they can function god. For two literary examples, Ill be discussing headmaster Frankenstein in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, andMoreau in H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau.f By so doing, this paper forget show how for each one character embodies the concept of scientist as graven image and how the two custody differ in their righteous sensibilities and in terms of how they do by with their own responsibility for the horrors they begin wrought; most notably, the chaste absence of a chaste compass in Moreau volition be highlighted. Finally, the paper will conclude by suggesting that the essay of humans playing theology often proscribedweighs any flitting benefits. In the end, where human hubris goes, sliminess is sure to follow.\nTo begin with, Victor Frankenstein wishes to assume the mantle of immortal and, in so doing, neatly captures the concept of scientist as p erfection  in a trend that few characters of fiction ar able. After all, he wishes to seal from inanimate things specifically, the body move of the dead, a living macrocosm; in this regard, he is no different than the biblical God of Genesis who creates man out of clay. For his part, Moreau is not so a lot interested in animate life into death as he is interested in turning life into something else altogether. For instance, it soon bring to passs evident that his work entails creating unnamed half-human, half-animal creatures (Wells 89-90) At first glance, it seems as though Moreau wishes to become a sort of God, ruling tyrannically over a novel lavation of being. This impression is bolstered by the occasion, aboriginal in the novel, when Edward Prendrick stumbles upon several of the abominations and hears the following awful chant: His (Moreaus) is the field of operations of Pain; His is the go along that makes; His is the Hand that wounds; His is the Hand that hea ls  (Wells 118). Understandably, it appears to Wellss Prendrick that Moreau is trying to become as God (W...