Frankenstein

Introduction

The main plot of this novel revolves around some basic themes such as the pursuit of dangerous knowledge, monstrosity and secrecy. This novel is written by Marry Shelly during her trip to Switzerland in 1816. She developed the plot of Frankenstein while travelling with her married lover Percy Shelly. This novel reflects instances from life of the author since, her life was marked by death and tragedy and so is the story.

“The creature is repeatedly rejected by those who see it, but the monster proves intelligent and later highly articulate”.

Discussion

This essay builds on the arguments presented by Frankenstein (1818) and Wells's (1896) and examines mechanism science fiction has developed since late 19th century to the present day through development of a construct that informs on the relationship between humanity, human values and its corresponding “others” for instance extraterrestrials, robots, monsters, human versus machine or human versus animal hybrids relative to inanimate natural phenomena. The essays further identified and reports on encounters between human relationship with “others” towards shaping and modeling definitions of the humanity and explores arbitrary of the categories that are employed to categorize human bodies and behavior on foundations of race, gender and sexuality. This report contributes into literature of humanity identity by identifying elements that have been used to form definition of humanity, values that define humanity and implication of the different definition of humanity to the modern literature on human identity and humanity through reflection of creation natural and artificial and symptomatic relationship with the nature of self on current community. (Devon, 1982, pp.155).

Frankenstein (pp. 1-3) reports on definition of life as a continuous process that goes past death. Frankenstein (pp. 22-48) claims human evolves from matter as documented by Darwin theory of natural selection that contributes into generation of a “spark of life”. Frankenstein ...