Mary Shelley'sFrankensteinhas proven to be aninteresting read giving insight into the attitude’s values and beliefs of the 1700s when it was first written. The influential novel constantly confronts the dangers of scientific discovery, and the consequences of playing God. Similarly, Steven Spielberg'sJurassic Parkwas also made at a time of great technological advancement as the cloning of Dolly the sheep made massive waves throughout the scientific community and shocked millions. Breaking the ceiling for what we thought was possible as a society. While simultaneously giving rise to a massive ethical debate on cloning, causing audiences to question the trustthat we put in scientists to remain within ethicalbounds. Mary Shelley'sFrankensteinand Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Parkboth challenge the ethical boundaries of playing God, ultimately positioning the reader to perceive the breaking of these boundaries as detrimental Frankensteinis gothic horror written by Mary Shelley in 1818. The novel illustrates a story of a superstitious academic named Victor Frankenstein. However, he wasn't superstitious in the sense that he believed in ghosts, but to the point where he was utterly convinced that electricity could bring back the dead as was the belief at the time. Victor develops an absolutist behaviour, unwavering in his pursuit of creation; persisting to the point where he would "deprive myself[himself] of rest and health" in order to finally accomplish his goal of bringing a monstrous being to life. However, his vanity would not let him stop at that as he creates a being that he decided was BETTER than a normal human. Making an 8 ft tall wretch. This god-like complex is his eventual undoing as he rejects the horror upon its birth, casting out the creature to live out a life of solitude that eventually leads to the death of his entire family. Victor's atrocious actions position the audience to sympathise with the monster. Where throughout its first experience in civilisation, it only finds constant rejections from humanity in itsYanis Varoufakis Frankenstein
