Frankenstein

BY SARAH PYEON

How should we view Frankenstein's tragic death, and what does it mean?

We must have encountered the appearance of a monster with a terrifying appearance and face at least once. As such, Frankenstein is well-known as a classic and is performed in many musicals. Before reading this book, I didn't pay much attention to it because it was just grotesque content Also, bizarre content like zombies was not my favorite to read However, Frankenstein has a deeper message than a malformed, distorted appearance. Especially, the death of Frankenstein brings us to think about the meaning of coexistence

The first chapter of this book comes to mind. Victor Frankenstein wants to tell his story to the navigator Wilton. Frankenstein wasn't the monster I thought it was. He was the creator of the monster. I thought the monster was the same person as Frankenstein, but it was different from what I thought on the first page. While looking at the second chapter, I was surprised at how all these studies were conducted in the 19th century, although it is a novel. It was astonishing that, two centuries ago, Mary Shelly wrote a novel with such imagination at the young age of 20 What is more surprising is that not only did she clone a human in the novel, but it also led to the end of life and confrontation between the monster and Frankenstein, making us think about the meaning of coexistence.

Victor Frankenstein, a young man, obsessed with science, devotes all his life to research and breathes life into an inanimate object, but in the end, he becomes angry, denies it, and turns away from it. Also, the monster wants affection and attention from the creator who created it, but as the request is rejected, the monster becomes angry and kills the creator's loved ones The content made me think a lot about various dimensions of the creation of life, the development of science, responsibility, and coexistence. Frankenstein, who confidently became the creator of the realm of God, met the tragic end of both the creature and the creator After all, can't humans be creators?

I investigated the tragic death of Frankenstein and the monster from the perspective of living together Humans are creatures that need to live together It is a social existence that does not feel the meaning of existence alone. However, Frankenstein used his abilities to create a creature called a monster. Still, he was not able to provide an environment for the monster to live with humans. It was more terrifying than Frankenstein thought It has been more than 200 years since the monster’s creation in the novel However, many situations in human history still make it difficult to live together both the creator and the creature. In the era of the metaverse, we will live in coexistence with robots and virtual reality. Robots, like humans but not exactly like us, bring fear and anticipation about how we can coexist with them.

Science is constantly evolving Even now, new things are being made in the corner of the earth However, if such technologies are not established in conditions where they can coexist harmoniously with our lives, they may end up as tragic as Frankenstein's monster. I believe that we should all exert ourselves to coexist graciously by considering not only new technology of human convenience but also the ethics of the creator