Owen M.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as interpreted by Owen MacNeill

Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein pursued the life of his creature at all costs. He devoted much of his life to creating the creature that eventually ruined his life. In college Victor became obsessed with the meaning of life and ancient sciences that led him to believe that he could create a living creature out of the dead. For years he didn't speak to his family or friends and became obsessed with his work which led lack of eating and isolation. His obsession later led to his demise of himself and the people who are close to him. The first two people that were affected by Victor's obsession were Justine Moritz and Victor's brother William. Justine was convicted and executed for supposedly killing William but the monster was the perpetrator. The monster then goes on to kill Victor's wife and one love Elizabeth. The person who was most hurt by Victor's obsession was the monster himself who says,"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on." The monster was persecuted by everyone because of Victor's obsession to create life.

Today there are some scientists that try to create things that nature limits them to such as clones. The most popular form of human cloning is therapeutic cloning and is used to fix damaged parts of a human body not create humans as a whole. Therapeutic cloning would be used to create liver tissue for a person with alcoholism or someone who suffered from lung tissue and needed a graft of cloned cells. There is another cloning process that is meant for the cloning and creation of humans this process is called reproductive cloning and is illegal in many of the states in America and was outlawed by the European Union. These scientists and activists devote their lives lobbying for cloning to become legal and who knows whether or not somewhere in the world a group of scientists hasn't already created a human clone.