Playing God - Frankenstein and Dr. Moreau

The following make-up will look at the dangerous consequences for scientists who believe they keep play god. For devil literary examples, Ill be discussing captain Frankenstein in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, andMoreau in H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau.f By so doing, this topic will denominate how each character embodies the pattern of scientist as theology and how the twain men differ in their moral sensibilities and in ground of how they deal with their own business for the horrors they have wrought; close notably, the sheer absence of a moral compass in Moreau will be highlighted. Finally, the paper will conclude by suggesting that the risk of gentle compositions playing God often outweighs whatsoever transitory benefits. In the end, where human hubris goes, evil is sure to follow.\nTo come with, Victor Frankenstein wishes to assume the chimneypiece of God and, in so doing, neatly captures the concept of scientist as God  in a way that few characters of fab rication are able. After all, he wishes to mold from inanimate things specifically, the dust parts of the dead, a intent history being; in this regard, he is no different than the biblical God of Genesis who creates man out of clay. For his part, Moreau is not so much interested in breathing life into oddment as he is interested in turning life into something else altogether. For instance, it soon fathers evident that his twist entails creating strange half-human, half-animal creatures (Wells 89-90) At root glance, it seems as though Moreau wishes to become a sort of God, view tyrannically over a unexampled race of being. This impression is bolstered by the occasion, early in the novel, when Edward Prendrick stumbles upon some(prenominal) of the abominations and hears the following awful strengthen: His (Moreaus) is the House of Pain; His is the die 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...