Morality play

By: Langsa Tuguinay, 2013-62888

         Only now did I realize that Frankenstein wasn't the name of the monster but was the surname of the scientist that created the monster.

Based on Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein, the movie’s storyline goes like this. Dr. Frankenstein, the scientist, and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wanted to finally get out of the evil experiment business but when another mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agreed to help him create a new creature, a woman to be specific, to be the companion of the monster.

Just by knowing the plot, there could already by ethical issues presented there like Dr. Frankenstein’s case where he was torn between giving up his wife over NOT creating a monster or creating a monster over not giving up his wife. Naturally, he would pick the latter because of human instinct. Of course, we could not blame him because of emotional and sentimental value. Now this is where morality comes in. Based on the movie, I believe that science as itself is moral, it's just the people "moving around" science who are the deciding factor whether what they do about science would be considered as moral or immoral (I hope you get my point here).

Also, in the monster's case, it wasn't him who was wrong, it was the people who have already judged in based on his facade. It's the like moral-immoral play in science, people tend to do what they think is right but is actually wrong. People drive away the monster because they think that it is the right thing to do, but if we look at it deeper and after watching the movie, it is wrong.