Theme Of Alienation In Frankenstein

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If you had the chance to pick and choose the best aspects of you and your partner to be put into your baby, would you? Or would you let nature do its job and leave science out of it? Many major themes of Frankenstein such as the concept of playing God, a difference in design and outcome and alienation relate to certain aspects of designer babies. Having children should be left to nature, no science needed. A designer baby is an embryo that has been genetically altered according to the requests or needs of the parents. Traits and the presence of diseases can be controlled as well.
Some may refer to this as “playing God”; which is exactly what Victor Frankenstein was doing when creating his creature. These parents get to PICK what they want their baby to look like and act like without leaving it to God to do his job, the way Victor chose the most appealing body parts of the dead carcusses he used to create his monster. “The innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.” To further explain this quote, Shelley speaks about how one’s upbringing decides if they turn out in happiness or misery, not so much about if they
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When his creature fails in his eyes, Victor isolated himself from society. The monster is constantly alone because he is the only one of his kind. He says “And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.” In a world of designer babies, it’s clear that those with parents unable to afford DNA altering would be outcasts. Puja Lalwani states that “Not everyone will be able to afford this technology, which means those who are born naturally will be considered social outcasts. And those with hereditary disorders will face the same