The Issue of Immortality in Frankenstein's Monster
“Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are "good" (or right) and those that are "bad" (or wrong).” -From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
So Morality is simply knowing between what is good to not. But for me, there is no such thing as bad. The term bad for me was only used to describe a thing with the absence of goodness in it because not all good for others are also good for others.
Frankenstein’s monster is just a representation of what humans are capable of doing, that humans can even bring back the life of the dead. And within it embodies two concepts in our society, Morality and Science. On the side of morality, in the eyes of the normal people its bad to bring back the life of the dead. But maybe for the eyes of others, its not that bad as long as they do not interfere with their culture and beliefs. And I guess, some may treat those creatures as one of their Gods. On the side of Science, one thing is for sure, that Science almost everything is possible with it. Almost everything we see are explainable with Science. And most specially, we humans are now capable of doing everything whatever thing, concept or idea that may come into our mind.
The monster was made dumb maybe because they do not want them to be better or more intelligent than us. They want to them to be of the lower type. Maybe they are afraid that these such creatures may rule the world as they became so intelligent. And for me this works. Cause it would be so unbelievable for a relived human to be better than the normal. And it is so impossible for them to be greater than us for maybe they already forgot the things they learned while they are still alive.
Bringing back a dead back to life is a good idea for it may lead to immortality. But still, I am believing to the saying that “Change is the only permanent thing in this world.”. So everything needs come to an end. And in the eyes of the church, it is a bad thing to do. So we should not relive the dead.
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