Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
This book written in 1818 also called “The
modern Prometheus” tells us the story of a scientist that was obsessed with two
things: creating a living form with human parts and his stepsister Elizabeth
Lavenza.
This man used his knowledge from the
university to make experiments with human parts taken from graves, until he
succeeded in this task creating a living anthropomorphic creature with his own intelligence.
When Victor saw the creature, he turned repulsed by his creation and run away
getting sick. The monster escaped and looked for and stayed in a shelter,
reading books and getting knowledge and culture.
After four months, the monster found Victor
in the mountains and demanded the creation of a female companion to him, and
Frankenstein accepted this terms. Just before ending the female monster, Victor
destroyed it because it would have been be dangerous if they had had children,
and the monster took revenge by killing Elizabeth with his own hands. Seeking
revenge, Victor pursued the monster across the world until the North Pole but
he died before catching him. At the end the creature found Victor’s body and
cried, later he swore killing himself and got lost in the ice raft.
Every action has consequences, and we have to
deal with them. In the modern world we could see to many examples like
the invention of the first gun that was the beginning of a revolution or armory
that was the starting point of a war and led too many deaths in the recent
history.
This book teaches us that we are responsible
of our actions, and we have to think before making an action, like the discovery
of the radioactivity which is used in the wrong way by countries to make bombs
and destroy other places, knowing that this can be used in a positive way like
making energy for our homes.
