Playing God
...which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects!" (107)
When a person is born, there is a necessity and yearning for that person to be loved and accepted by those around him or her, it is the nature of humanity. It is also necessary that a child has a strong family structure and that he is shown that love and acceptance that he needs. A lack of these necessities can create a negative response from the child. This proves that children are impressionable "tabula rasas", or blank slates, which is John Locke's theory about the mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein not only shows this idea of the "tabula rasa" but also shows how Victor Frankenstein's monstrous creation was a crime against nature not only by focusing on Frankenstein's attempt to play God, grotesquely using human body parts and then abandoning an unknowledgeable inexperienced child-like creature in the world, but also by focusing on the murderous villain this monster turned into due to his experiences lacking love and acceptance and his creators abandonment. .
Victor Frankenstein created a human life, which turned out to be a crime against the nature of humanity. Frankenstein attempts to play God for his own amusement, grotesquely using different body parts to create this being. He later abandons his creation, leaving him like an innocent child with a blank slate to learn and fend for himself, and after being shunned by society and labeled a monster, he lives up to his learned title and became a murderous villain released into society leading further into Frankenstein's crime in regard to...
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