"Life at all Costs" is a theme that plays a major role in the beginning of the book Frankenstein. The doctor, Victor Frankenstein, abandoned the normal world and went into complete solitude to pursue his life goal which was to create life. Throughout the book we see that Frankenstein continues to ignore his family, friends, and wife to achieve his goal of creating life no matter what the consequences were. Frankenstein actually does achieve his goal when he creates a monster out of peoples body parts and organs but he pays a terrible price when the monster starts killing his loved ones."My rage is unspeakable, when i reflect that the murderer, whom i have turned loose upon society still exists." (Shelly 247-248) This was the consequence that Frankenstein ultimately suffered for trying to create "Life at all Costs."
Barry Bonds was an extremely talented baseball player who now holds one of the biggest records in baseball history, the home run record. Barry Bonds was willing to achieve this goal no matter what and at no cost so he did steroids and like everyone else who does steroids he got caught. He did achieve his goal at the most home runs in history but his name is now always put with cheater and steroid user and because of his actions he will most likely never gain his reputation back or make it into the hall of fame.
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I feel the same way about the use of steroids in professional athletes. Barry Bonds now holds the record even though he doesn't deserve it.
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