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Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Synopsis: Frankenstein, one of the greatest horror classics of literature of all time, is an authentic masterpiece. It was immortalized in the theater and film, in various adaptations. At first it was a short story about a young Swiss student who aspired to create an ideal, injecting life into a dead body. Later turned into a novel, became a landmark in the literature of the genre.

My review: Frankenstein is a genuine masterpiece of world literature, and one of the three great masterpieces of horror literature - the others are The Doctor and The Monster and Dracula. And in my opinion, is undoubtedly the best book of the three. There are two intriguing aspects and extremely current in the work: the character of techno - and how prophetic that - and the social. Both instill many questions. In the aspect

technoscientific

Frankenstein warns of the danger not subtle use of irresponsible and amoral science. Bearing in mind the time when the work was written over a period of great ferment scientific experiments being conducted with new (
emphasis on rational empiricism


empiricism in England who later served as the basis to scientism, as opposed to French rationalism), theses formulated and the emergence of new technologies, Mary Shelley's attention to the lapses related to science and technology, can bring disastrous consequences. It is an extraordinary story of continuity, since we live in an era of agility globalizaçãoe of scientific nature of medicine, war, energy and technology, in a nutshell general scope.
Frankenstein
depicts aberration created by the amoral and ambitious scientist who aspires to conquer death and the laws of nature (although there's a certain slant moralist / religious approach of Mary Shelley, since man appears as a being who, in opposing the nature and the "divine", is heavily punished). We refer mainly to the dangers of ethical and biological cloning and stem cell culture, in addition to biological weapons themselves. In the social sphere, the monster of dr. Frankenstein is the embodiment - and possibly belief by Shelley - a famous and widely debated thesis of the philosopher Rousseau, the "noble savage". He preached the idea that man is born "pure" but is corrupted by society vicious, violent and materialistic. If it was not created within that society, as in the jungle by animals, remain intact. The monster, actually receives the first spark of life is to be neat and "good", and ignorant of the society. Know the world through books and observation, it is alleged mistreatment and rejection, even benefiting people (the rejection is a reaction due to the appearance of the hideous monster, the true vision of the man who usually judges people solely by its exterior, and segregates for differences), thus, rebels and corrupts itself, be transmuted into a violent and mean. The actuality is the eternal debate about the essence of human nature, and the causes and motivations of violence.
Review written on 06/03/2009.
Debate over the work.