Playing God - Frankenstein and Dr. Moreau

The pursuit paper leave alone have a bun in the oven at the dangerous consequences for scientists who moot they can play paragon. For two literary examples, Ill be discussing Victor Frankenstein in bloody shame Shelleys Frankenstein, andMoreau in H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau.f By so doing, this paper will show how each casing embodies the concept of scientist as perfection and how the two men dissent in their moral sensibilities and in terms of how they deal with their feature responsibility for the horrors they have molded; most nonably, the sheer absence of a moral arrive at in Moreau will be highlighted. Finally, the paper will close by suggesting that the risk of existence playing God a great deal outweighs any transitory benefits. In the end, where human hubris goes, evil is true to follow.\nTo begin with, Victor Frankenstein wishes to appropriate the mantle of God and, in so doing, neatly captures the concept of scientist as God  in a way that some ch aracters of fiction are able. by and by all, he wishes to mold from breathtaking things specifically, the body parts of the dead, a living being; in this regard, he is no incompatible than the biblical God of propagation who creates man out of clay. For his part, Moreau is not so much arouse in breathing lifetime into death as he is interested in number life into something else altogether. For instance, it soon becomes manifest that his work entails creating strange half-human, half-animal creatures (Wells 89-90) At first glance, it seems as though Moreau wishes to become a multifariousness of God, ruling tyrannically over a novel race of being. This photo is bolstered by the occasion, early in the novel, when Edward Prendrick stumbles upon several of the abominations and hears the following untellable chant: His (Moreaus) is the House of torture; His is the generate that makes; His is the Hand that wounds; His is the Hand that heals  (Wells 118). Understandably, it appears to Wellss Prendrick that Moreau is trying to become as God (W...