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frankenstein
Title: frankenstein
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1547 | Pages: 6.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
frankenstein
Science and Technology: The Romantic View in Frankenstein
The eighteenth century was a remarkable time for humanity. The movement known
as the Enlightenment brought drastic changes in the cultural, scientific, and industrial
aspects of life. Rationalism and critical thinking applied to anything from art and literature
to scientific studies and technological inventions. The advancement was clear and inevitable.
Nonetheless, not everyone seemed to share the views of the Enlightenment. The upper class
Europeans, children of …showed first 75 words of 1547 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1547 total…contact with people was extremely limited. However,
it is those same qualities that made the creature so lethal and proved the romantic view that
science is not for humans to abuse. The romantic view can be summarized in the words of
Frankenstein: “Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the
apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries”(200). It is
unfortunate that he realized it on his deathbed.
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