He role of God in Frankenstein: Moral without God

he role of God in Frankenstein: Moral without God

Throughout the history of the classic book, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, many essays have been written. All of them, in order to analyze and establish the ideas and morals of the story that the author of such impressive work has left for the cultural and intellectual benefit of humanity. Standing in an educational system where God is presented as a dogma, the authors focus their essays on the power of science and technology over humanity, feminism, human morality, romanticism, Marxism, and others. Nicole D Smith, a well-formed author who got her education at Rutgers University and Duke University, earning her bachelor of arts, a Master of Arts, and Ph.D. of Philosophy. Smith wrote an essay for the Article Myriad analyzing the idea that Shelley reasons humanity can develop a moral and spiritual side without God (theologically its creator), concurring with the part when the creature develops his own spiritual and moral side, without Frankenstein. Smith presents part of her work giving comparisons between the creature with characters that come from the bible, such as Adam, Jesus Christ, Cain, and Abel and softly she compares God with Frankenstein.

Smith explains that the creature is the pure proof that certainly, humanity can develop their spiritual and moral side without God. However, she evaluates the biblical and spiritual insinuation that the book presents denying this reason. For example, the creature finds the existence of his creator which impacts his way to see the world, so trying to find the divine approval and acceptance as the same way humanity has been looking for God.

Two downfall arguments that the Smith presents are when she mentions that “the monster in Frankenstein is able to form his own code of behavior based on example and the behavior he views from others” Smith (1), but she fails, giving a poor comparison between Adam and the creature instead of mention the main books which the education of the creature was based because the interaction with Felix’s family. For example, the work of John Milton Paradise Lost (1667), an eternal classic wrote by a Christian. Secondly, she quotes Thompson’s work when he mentions that Jesus Christ “fits perfectly into the Romantic notion of the isolated soul, the tortured, wandering loner who is, by fate or circumstance, cast adrift on a sea of loneliness and despair” (Thompson 192), connecting Jesus’s life with the creature’s life. This last argument seems to be understandable for whomever Christian. Jesus Christ shares those characteristic and experience with the creature, but reviewing both situations, they have different ends.

Beginning her arguments, Smith asserts that the creature establishes his spiritual and moral side by learning from the townspeople without the presence of a bible or other religious scripture. At this point, Smith synthetize that Shelley

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