after reviewing details in the second and third paragraphs of chapter 5 what ideas about playing god do you think shelley might
be conveying through the character of dr. frankenstein? how does the film versions characterization of the doctor addresses these ideas in both similar and different ways?
The trouble with the term arises first from its fogginess. All but zealots would likely agree that it’s fine to create new forms of life through selective breeding and grafting of fruit trees, or to use in-vitro fertilization to conceive life outside the womb to aid infertile couples. No one objects when people intervene in what some deem “acts of God,” such as earthquakes, to rescue victims and provide relief. People get fully behind treating patients dying of cancer with “unnatural” solutions like chemotherapy. Most people even find it morally justified for humans to allot out decisions as to who lives or dies in the form of organ transplant lists that prize certain people’s survival over others.
