Nature and her Rules by Jorge

Nature and her Rules by Jorge - October 2021 Scholarship Essay

During this spooky season, we return to books of horror and frights. In such books, characters are terrorized by supernatural forces. Hardly ever, we get books that describe the many points of view between characters, especially the thing that causes the terror. One book that does describe the monster and their feelings is a well-known book, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly. A book written as a part of a challenge during the year without a summer. Mrs. Shelly was in a vacation home in Geneva, where Lord Byron proposed the challenge.
Mary authored the story in the gothic style that was big during that time. In her novel, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster that terrorizes him and changes his entire life. In the book, Victor sees a tree that gets struck by lightning and is fascinated by the potential electricity has. He then gets the idea that he could harness the power of electricity and reanimate a corpse made of deceased corpses. After spending two years gathering everything needed. He succeeds, immediately disgusted by his creation. He decides to take a nap. While in his sleep, he has a nightmare of his fiancée Elizabeth in the streets of Ingolstadt. As he approaches her and kisses her, she becomes a corpse which reminds him of his mother. He sees the worms and all the things that happen to a corpse. This nightmare is critical of what Victor has done. He has taken the ability to create life. Such ability had only been able to be done by women, now he made them unnecessary. When Mary authored this book, she addressed Victor as “The Modern Prometheus". In the story of Prometheus, he stole fire from the gods, the gods then punished him by chaining him to a rock, his liver was to be eaten every day by an eagle. Victor stole life and had to live with his creation for the rest of his life. The lesson I got from this story was to not mess with nature and her rules. If life and death were created, we should not try to go against it. We may end up creating something worse than we could have imagined or must live with the consequences of our actions. I want to see science and our way of life improve, but at the cost of breaking one of nature’s rules. I do not believe it is worth it. Victor found out the hard way. I am determined not to commit similar actions to what he has.