The Use Of Technology In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Technology is an aspect of our lives which we all love and desire to have more of, yet when does the convenience of technology turn into an inconvenience? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a book of over two hundred years, is a clear example of how science and technology can be taken too far, showing the downsides to artificial intelligence and creating artificial “brains”. Shelley shows how something as unsuspecting as technology can be monstrous or in better words, a threat which intentionally condemns fear and harm upon another being. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shelley displays how when the technology of artificial intelligence gets out of hand it can become a monstrosity.

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Shelley uses the monster to display to her audience that the advancement of artificial minds has negative consequences that will fall back on their creators and beyond. Shelley shows how the monsters intelligence progressively becomes more and more canny as time passes. Victor did not “consider the limits” of the monster when he created it, just the advancement of the technology itself (Von Drehle 7). The intelligence that the monster was able to attain was beyond its creator, Victor, and was at a level which allowed the monster to develop his mind at a fascinating rate. Shelley uses the monster to show how artificial intelligence can be menacing when one does not know exactly what he/she is tampering with. Victor fails to learn how his technology works and rather fears it and avoids it. This action is the spark which created the monsters hate for Victor and what ultimately causes the monster to torture him and turn his life into a living hell. Victor always thought of the monster as “the miserable monster whom [he] had created” and never attempts to understand the monster of communicate with it (Shelley 59). This action leads to the disaster of his artificial intelligence and is what causes it to fail to help Victor learn more of about that technology. The artificial intelligence that Victor created in turn advanced on its own and eventually learns language, emotions, feeling, etc. This causes it to create a hate for Victor and is what causes his technology to have strong downsides which affect not only Victor. Shelley displays how when Victor tampers with over advanced technology, his own technology turns on his and in result Victor loses family members as well as his love. Shelley uses an exaggerated form of artificial intelligence, using body parts to create a being, to captivate her audience, but her moral