Question 3: Frankenstein continues to occupy the popular imagination as a monstrous scientist. Analyze some of the ways in which Frankenstein continues to haunt discussions of recent technologies.
Frankenstein is a famous novel character. In the story, there are so many technologies appear when making Frankenstein. Are the technologies that appear in the story affected nowadays people or science? It’s the thing that I’m going to talk about in the above essay by using some article documents.
1. This article is about there is two western doctors decide to have some experiments of human cloning since they have successes in cloning animal and livestock before. However, there are so many religious and medical organizations criticize or them and said that they are “Doctor Frankensteins”. As a results, there are no country support their ideas and help them to develop the human cloning project. They disagree with this project because they think that it has violated the moral minefield and worried about the treatment between clones and naturally born humans. On the other hand, it seems that cloning is scientifically possible. Two doctor point out that since cloning human is just the same as the process of cloning animals or Dolly etc.
Although there are so many people against human cloning, however, it still has many scientists’ continuous researching and experimenting about it around the world. Moreover, Wople said that in the coming decade, the doctors are able to control about the embryos and they would become bio-engineer.
Is it possible for them to clone human, it still have many problem remain and waiting to be solve while the researching process.
2. This article is about the changing technologies from the relations between Frankenstein and modern human cloning. As we know that, science would always change no matter in which period of time, it just changes spectacularly. After Industrial Revolution, Mary Shelley has written a novel about Frankenstein. Although what she has written seems outdated and horrid nowadays, it still has her own saving grace. She believed that science would go to the dark way and down turn in the coming days; however, our sciences have not go to the way that she thinks and the scientists have tried to bring this ideas and its benefits to our society.
Since the technologies have opened up and developed, it becomes more updated and brings some modern creations of robots and biological clones. As a result, there would be some changes between Frankenstein and modern human cloning. The article gives some hits that modern human cloning is different from Frankenstein. It is because our technologies’ are more updates and the scientists have tried their best to bring benefits to the society. So, we don’t need to afraid what had happened in the story will happen in the real society.
3. This article discusses about are the stage of Frankenstein seems become a new reality. A Scottish scientist, Ian Wilmut, has conducted a research about embryology successfully. He had taken the adult mammal cell to develop embryo. Ian Wilmut has cloned a sheep called Dolly by using some simple method with limited funding. Although he had cloned Dolly, he just wants to get better in farm animal’s productivity. Some people said that Ian is the modern Frankenstein and think that science fiction idea, cloning human, has become real. However, according to what Ian has said, he thinks that it is impossible for people to clone human by using the same method. Moreover, there would have many problem need to concern. For example, the social status of the clone and the life of them etc.; we should consider about it seriously.
Since there is so many people banned the idea of human cloning, some people suggested that the research should conduct underground and the clone should create secretly. They think that it is just the problem of time and who is the first person to create human clone. If the first human clone has appeared already, the criticisms are not important at all.
4. This article is about the different between Frankenstein and cloned human. There are a lot of people think that human cloning is not good for the society. From a research, it shows that more than 75% of people disallow the experiment of human cloning. However, more than 95 percent of people do not really know about what is human cloning. In their mind, they just think cloned human is something like Frankenstein monster or mindless zombies. It is what uneducated people think and most of them always affect by the image of Frankenstein. However, the technique that used in the film or novel would not happen in the reality. Also, it is impossible for the dead people alive again by using the same method. In fact, human cloning does not mean there would be two same people appear in the world. It just takes some DNA of a person and develops the cell. After nine months, a new baby was born and grows up just like a naturally human baby. They just share almost the same DNA like Twins but not two same people with same appearance in the world. So, there are some different between Frankenstein and human cloning.
5. Some people said that Frankenstein is being brought to the reality. Since there are some case of clone animals and genetically engineered food, people may believe that the novel character, Frankenstein, would be brought to our society possibly. From the time of the word ‘Frankenstein’ appeared, it has some meaning of it, that is, ‘anything unnatural with its origins in the lab or transgressions into the unnatural’. In the past, the things, which people think that it is impossible to happen, are able to occur nowadays. For example, we can transplant the human organ form the recently dead body; the scientists discover what is pacemaker, smallpox vaccine, the atomic bomb as well as the cloning animals and genetically engineered food.
It is no doubts to said Frankenstein bring a lot of affection to the science or technologies part. It makes us know that those things happen in the novel may have the chance to become visible in another way of scientific method. Just like Lederer had said says, it is impossible for us to rid of Frankenstein's monster whenever we talk about science and scientists.
6. According to the article, Frankenstein is the novel characters which contain technology and humanity in the modern West society. It shows that the technologies in it may bring some benefits as well as some adverse effect to our society. Since Frankenstein had included so many elements in it, it had provided a series of interlinked characterizations and associations which concern scientists, technology and human society. Also, we would see that Frankenstein monster is full of ambiguous. It has the potential for good and the potential for evil. The monster is the technology which presents technology as amoral and non-human. Frankenstein also shows as a product of science. There is no Inquisition or Royal Society to control the scientist and creation. Although it’s just a novel, it clearly shown Frankenstein would bring the technologies to our society.
To sum up, the technologies that appear in Frankenstein have brought a lot of effects to nowadays science and the society. Although the real person of Frankenstein may not really exist in our society, it’s concept of creating human clone may the same as Frankenstein. It really a important feature for the scientific aspects.
Webliography
1. Jeremy Bransten. ‘The Cloning Debate -- Real Science Or Frankenstein Fantasy?’
http://www.zavos.org/library/articles/Frankenstein.htm
2. Connor. ‘Changing Technology’ (2008)
http://www.bookstove.com/Classics/Changing-Technology.96015
3. TIME MAGAZINE. ‘Frankenstein: a new reality’ (1999)
http://web.quipo.it/frankenstein/thenewreality.htm
4. Esmaeili. ‘Human Cloning’
http://www.humancloning.org/essays/esiann.htm
5. LaShunda Prescott-Manly. ‘Bringing "Frankenstein" to life…’
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/wiscengr/november04/frankenstein.shtml
6. Tranter, Kieran. ‘Frankenstein and law as technology’ (2007)http://techtheory.blogspot.com/2007/02/frankenstein-and-law-as-technology.html
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