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Comment on Playing God or Playing Science by forrest
The distinction I am making is that the things we attend to god can be explained by science. So therefore you are not playing god, you are playing the part of science. I also feel somewhat uncomfortable calling it nature because science explains how … Continue reading
Comment on Playing God or Playing Science by Mark Sample
Interesting distinction here between "playing god" and "playing science." I'm not totally clear on what you mean by "playing science" though; I think you're onto something, but it's worth delving a bit more into how science is opposed to "god" in the novel. Maybe it helps to broaden the notion of god to more generally, "nature." So, science (as Frankenstein works it) is opposed to nature. That might be a more tenable opposition to set up with the novel Continue reading
Frankenstein Vol 1 Blog 1
Looking at Volume 1 of Frankenstein through the narrow restraints of Suvin’s definition of science fiction as “the literature of cognitive estrangement”, I think it is fair to say that Frankenstein can be considered a good example of science fiction. … Continue reading → Continue reading
Playing God or Playing Science
I write the following blog at a certain time when the extent of my knowledge about the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is based solely on the first volume of the text as well as the occasional passing reference in everyday wanderings and pop culture. Whenever I hear about Frankenstein, the phrase “playing god,” is […]
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Seeing is believing.
The first thing that struck me in particular upon picking up Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” for the first time since graduating High-School English was that the language was a great deal less confusing than I remembered it to be. The second was that I still didn’t like it much, but for very new reasons. I find […] Continue reading
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