The Consequences Of Cloning In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Cloning is making an identical copy. Cloning is not a success, just like in Frankenstein’s creature. Frankenstein serves as an example regarding stem cell research and cloning. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelly shows what happens if scientist ignore the moral community. Victor faces many bad consequences because of his ignorance. Cloning also has many bad consequences. In 1997, Dolly the sheep was the first animal ever cloned. It took 277 trials to clone the sheep. Cloning has a high failure rate, high deformity and disability rate in cloned animals (Putatunda 1). Scientists cannot successfully clone an animal with no failure rate, which means they will not be able to clone humans with no failure rate. Scientists should not be allowed to clone because they do not know how the clone will react or how they will come out. Cloning is one scientifically difficult and dangerous. In Frankenstein, Victor wanted to create life and succeeded. He put many body parts together and created a monster known as Frankenstein. Victor’s monster turned out to be evil and a murderer. Victor’s ambition of creating life made him ignore the possible consequences. He did not know how the monster would react to society, which resulted in many deaths. Frankenstein relates to cloning because when the …show more content…
Cloning has a high failure rate in animals and scientist do not know the outcome of cloning a human. If scientist were to clone humans it would take them many years, a large amount of money and many failed trials. In those failed trials there would be a lot of lost embryos which would be morally and ethically wrong. Cloning humans is very risky and dangerous. There are many bad outcomes of cloning humans such as: birth defects, not being accepted and treated less than others. Mary Shelly shows how the actions of Victor lead to bad consequences because he ignored the moral community. Scientists can compared to Victor because they ignore morality of