...trust and are cast out of the Garden of Eden. Michelangelo’s paintings of the Sistine Chapel capture the story of Adam and Eve from Genesis. Similarly, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Creature can be compared to Adam and his creator, Victor Frankenstein to God. The Creature was also an individual, unique, and lonely being created by someone who was supposed to care for him, but unfortunately the Creature doesn’t get that same guidance as Adam gets from God. He says, “I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel" (Shelley 66). In Frankenstein, there are many references towards the story God and Adam in Genesis. Because of these references many think that the stories are a little similar. That may be, but there are by far more dissimilarities. I believe that the Creature’s story doesn’t match up with the story of Adam in Michelangelo’s paintings of the Sistine Chapel. Adam was created in God’s image and born in a more natural way then the Creature in Frankenstein. God breathed life into Adam in Michelangelo’s paintings. It shows God looking at Adam in such a peaceful and loving way. God’s hand is fully stretched out toward Adam, showing how important he was to his creator. Adam is pictured as the ideal human male with large muscles and well-designed contours. Adam’s creation is thought to be extraordinary and beautiful as depicted in many famous paintings of him. On the other hand, the Creature was created in a more unnatural and disgusting way. Victor decided to take...
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...On one hand the creature can be seen as a victim of Frankenstein’s thirst for knowledge a he is created against his own will and then rejected by his creator. However, he can also be seen as a victim of society and nature. On the other hand, it can be argued that the creature is rather a villain than a victim as he is physically powerful and is able to use his power. Furthermore, he is able to use his circumstances to benefit himself by leaning the common language and adapting to Nature. The creature can indeed be considered a victim of Frankenstein’s thirst for knowledge. The creature can be considered a “victim” since it implies isolation, oppression and loneliness, all of which the creature is affected by. Thus, the creature is a victim of Victor’s over-ambitious nature. His creation is brought about as a result of Frankenstein’s immense desire to create and “father a monster race”. The monster is a victim of circumstance and questions Victor, “did I request thee… to mold me Man?” Here, it is clear he is a victim since he has not asked for his creation and further rejection. Frankenstein refers to him as a “miserable wretch”, damning him from the start of his creation, calling him “hideous” and “deformed”. The monster has no control over his own life and how he is treated and is therefore a victim of Frankenstein’s thirst for knowledge. It can be argued that Frankenstein’s parents were significant in felicitating his ambitions. Frankenstein insinuates that his thirst for...
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...one. The main however is about a Doctor Victor Frankenstein who though born to a well-to-do and loving family, is over- ambitious and thirsts to prove himself. After achieving excelling academically, he designs a technique of creating life from a fusion of inanimate objects, dead bodies an animal parts. The doctor is not satisfied with achieving conventional feats but is determined to create a living being. It is this ambition that leads to the creation after years of painstaking work. It is this creation that leads to Victor's downfall. The creation is 8 feat tall and due to the use of human parts that do not march his massive size, is hideous. He is described as having watery yellow eyes, a withered, yellowish, translucent skin which barely conceals his muscular system and blood vessels. The only good aspects of his appearance are his perfect, white teeth, long black hair and his black lips. The doctor, who had hoped to create a beautiful being is shocked by his creation and flees the room immediately after realising how his creation looks. This initial rejection greatly saddens the creature who has superior intellect and he disappears. The experience makes Dr. Frankenstein ill and he is nursed to health by Henry Cleval, a childhood friend. After recovery, Victor returns home only to find his brother William murdered and the creature near the scene of crime....
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...The writer will explain the need for protection and ethical issue that may arise when IP is involved. Intellectual Property A thought or an image made into a creation others to use is a fitting description for intellectual property (IP). Just as any other property, IP needs protection from the evil of the world. Unfortunately, there is always someone waiting to profit from another person’s hard work and dedication. In order to protect IP the law provides patents, copyrights, trademarks, as well as trade secrets. Some people believe that providing protect creates a monopoly and want to shorten the term, in which a product is protective. The law benefits the creator and the consumer; it does create a monopoly but only for a short time in order for the creator to profit. Once the term of protection expires the consumer can then take the product and make improvements and even buy it cheaper. Without protection people would choose not to share their creation or invention, which would cause poor economy growth. Due to the laws of protection for IP, many lawsuits are filed each day. These types of lawsuits could last for years. A lawsuit that has lasted for a few years is Apple Inc. vs. Samsung; the lawsuit between the two electronic companies began in April 2011. Apple Inc. filled 12 claims of infringement against Samsung; the infringements are between the two product Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy. The goal for Apple Inc. is the make Samsung pay for the infringement...
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...asked ever since Man became conscious of his existence. It is a question rooted in the understanding that we did not create ourselves or the world we live in, therefore something greater than Man must exist. There is a need to know what created us in order for us to discover why we were created. Having a “God concept” allows us to rationalize things we don’t understand such as miracles, freak accidents, death, and eternity. The “God concept” gives us hope and something to strive for because we believe that we can become one with or be like the thing that created us. We program our lives around the characteristics we believe God possess. We decided what we will and won’t do based on our beliefs of what God does and doesn’t like. We live each day believing that if we act in accordance with what we believe is the will of God, that when we die we won’t be faced with eternal suffering. The belief that there is a God is man’s way of answering the unanswerable questions of creation, life, purpose, death, and the future. Because we don’t actually know the truth, we will use God as the source and sustainer of all things. The Design Argument The Design Argument is the most plausible of all arguments concerning the existence of a God. It states that “If we look around us at the natural world we can’t help noticing how everything in it is suited to the function it performs: everything bears evidence of having been designed”, (Warburton, 2013). The belief is that because everything that...
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...* God is The Supreme Being, the Creator of all that is, was, and ever will be. He is self-sufficient and lacks nothing. He is eternal. * Some of His many characteristics include loving, just, righteous, merciful, holy, slow to anger, quick to forgive. * What is a human being and what happens when you die? * A human being is an intentional creation of a personal God. All human beings bear the image of the Almighty God. * When a human being dies, based on the life that they lived and whether they are saved or not, their soul will either go to Hades or Paradise to await the final Judgment. * What is the nature of the universe? * God created all things out of nothing, and He spoke the universe into being. His spirit was sent forth to execute His spoken word. * Creation does not emanate from God; rather it is separate from Him. * How do you know what you know? How do you know what is true? * I know what I know because God revealed it to me by His spirit and through certain experiences or people in my life. * I can know what is true by comparing it to Scripture. If it is in Scripture, then it is true. * What is right and wrong or how can we know there is a right and wrong? * Right is a description of the character of God. That is, anything that matches up with His character is right. Anything that goes against His character is wrong. * We can know there is a right and wrong by...
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...At the start of life, human beings are exposed to the outside world with an open and blank mind. A new born has no knowledge, no concerns or worries and it only seeks to fulfill its main necessities. Surrounded by the outside world one lives through many experiences where knowledge is accepted. Encountering other human beings reflects upon ones perception and brings about ones self decisions. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein demonstrates characters that through an obsessive desire for more knowledge ruin their own lives. Victor Frankenstein is a scientist, who creates a monster to life through his extensive knowledge of science, but the creature he creates brings terrible demise and Victor loses everything that was once close to him. The monster himself craves knowledge through his learning experience. He is fascinated by human nature and language and seeks to be a part of it. His desire to gain too much knowledge leads him to lose self control and destroys the lives of many people. Watson, similar to Victor, is an explorer who travels to the North Pole and chases after the idea of making a discovery. Watson serves as an example of being at risk for destruction, but after hearing about the deadly consequences of exploration he stops himself from making the same mistakes Victor did. The obsession of gaining too much knowledge causes a loss in self control and allows ones desires to take over, resulting in destruction. The desire of extensive knowledge is first seen through Victor...
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... Polytheistic Overtones In The Bible Man was created a worshipper. It is a proven fact that there is a universal belief in God, god or gods in every nation on the face of the earth including the most primitive societies. The reason being that after the fall of man in the Garden of Eden as the bible describes in the book of Genesis, man was separated from His creator and became spiritually dead. With a fallen spirit and a blinded mind, man who was created with an intuitive belief and knowledge of the existence of God was drawn by the religious instinct within him to worship something or someone. Unable to find his creator, man produced deities out of his own imagination to worship. Deities of stone, wood, water, fire, air, sun, moon, stars, mountains, birds, kings, emperors etc. giving birth to several religions, the majority being polytheistic and some are still today. Man missed the object of his worship, worshipping the creation rather than the creator. The bible says “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever.”(Romans 1:25). God none the less had an elaborate and well-designed plan for the restoration of fallen man. A plan which existed from the very beginning even before man transgressed, to show the fallibility of proponents of Deism that present an absentee god who created the universe and went into oblivion, leaving man to his own fate and the universe to run itself...
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...Frankenstein is a novel that explores what can happen if one decides to go against the laws of nature with science. Victor frankenstein, an intelligent but selfish man, created a monster in what I believe to be an attempt to make up for the loss of his mother. The monster itself was not necessarily a “monster”, but after horrible treatment and cruel judgements by people including it’s own creator it became one. The people reacted so negatively to the creation because it was unnatural; this was a recurring idea throughout the novel. In contrast to the unnatural monster, there is an emphasis on the beauty of nature and of what is natural, along with many other elements of romanticism. Frankenstein calls attention to the relation of nature and beauty in contrast to the idea of unnatural monstrosities. Beauty and Nature is a clear motif in the novel, and this can be seen primarily with the monster itself. It was clearly not natural as it was made by a man using pieces of decomposing humans, and people reacted to it as such. the unnatural creation was anything but beautiful; in fact, it was frightening. The only reason that the monster was treated as it was, was its appearance. This can be seen specifically when the monster was living near the family in the cottage. The old blind man was welcoming and kind to the monster, but the children, who could see the hideous unnatural creation, forced it to leave and then separated themselves from the monster further by moving. Along with...
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...Augustine, we struggle to understand how evil comes into being. Evil corrupts our free will and enables us to sin, but if God is all-powerful and all good, how can he allow this to happen? “Whence comes evil? Was there a certain evil matter out of which he made these things? Did he form and fashion it, but yet leave within it something that he would not convert into good? Why would he do it? Was he powerless to turn and change all this matter so that no evil would remain in it, even though he is all powerful?” As these questions found their way into Augustine’s mind, they also manage to exist and remain unanswered for most people today. However Augustine addresses these questions by justifying evil in this world with God’s creation of free will. By granting us free will God makes us responsible for our wrongdoings, as a result of this we can knowingly choose either right or wrong. In the infamous biblical passage on the creation of original sin, God accommodates men by giving Adam and Eve all the necessities of life: partnership, water, food and land. However, despite God’s warning Eve chose to eat the fruit from the tree of life. The serpent persuades Eve who later convinces Adam to eat from the tree. From this persuasion and act from men, original sin is born. Men are now born with a predisposition to sin; in other words, they can knowingly choose what places them further away from God. Choosing the lesser good, in Adam and Eve’s case eating from the forbidden tree, explains the nature...
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...Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Key facts full title · Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus author · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley type of work · Novel genre · Gothic science fiction language · English time and place written · Switzerland, 1816, and London, 1816–1817 date of first publication · January 1, 1818 publisher · Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones narrator · The primary narrator is Robert Walton, who, in his letters, quotes Victor Frankenstein’s first-person narrative at length; Victor, in turn, quotes the monster’s first-person narrative; in addition, the lesser characters Elizabeth Lavenza and Alphonse Frankenstein narrate parts of the story through their letters to Victor. climax · The murder of Elizabeth Lavenza on the night of her wedding to Victor Frankenstein in Chapter 23 protagonist · Victor Frankenstein antagonist · Frankenstein’s monster setting (time) · Eighteenth century setting (place) · Geneva; the Swiss Alps; Ingolstadt; England and Scotland; the northern ice point of view · The point of view shifts with the narration, from Robert Walton to Victor Frankenstein to Frankenstein’s monster, then back to Walton, with a few digressions in the form of letters from Elizabeth Lavenza and Alphonse Frankenstein. falling action · After the murder of Elizabeth Lavenza, when Victor Frankenstein chases the monster to the northern ice, is rescued by Robert Walton, narrates his story, and dies tense · Past foreshadowing · Ubiquitous—throughout...
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...Examine the arguments against the teleological argument for the existence of God? (30) The design argument is also known as The teleological argument; it is an argument for the existence of God or for a higher more intelligent creator. The earliest version of the argument is associated with Socrates in ancient Greece. One argument which disagrees with the teleological is an argument from the famous philosopher David Hume, who said that even though the universe shows features which imply there is design meaning there is a God, the world is also imperfect and full of suffering. This could suggest to us that there isn’t an all loving and omnibenevolent God, Hume also argued that there is no evidence that the universe needs a designer meaning that it could have just come about naturally, this would link back the teleological argument because in the teleological argument it states that the universe has order meaning that there must be a creator who provided this order, so Hume could suggest that order came about naturally without a God. Hume also stated that no one has any evidence to prove that the Universe is not just the result of pure chance or luck, this would go against the teleological argument because he is saying there was no God to design the world and it was a natural occurrence which wasn’t planned or designed. Hume argued for the early forms of the theory of natural selection, he said that animals can adapt to respond to their surrounding and that the large amounts...
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...beauty that can be inferred from the Bible. Some of the teaching points below will deal with Scripture texts in which the Bible directly talks about beauty, but most will deal with texts that provide a theological foundation for how we, as Christians, should think of beauty. Teaching point one: God’s creation is beautiful and meant for our enjoyment. Read Ecclesiastes 3:11–14. The book of Ecclesiastes is best known for its ode to time: “For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die…” (NRSV). Alongside this theme, there is the well-known theme about life being vain, “a vanity of vanities,” a mere chasing after the wind. Missed, sometimes, in the midst of this gloomy, almost despairing perspective is another motif: that life is a gift from God and that the good things of life—food, drink, work, play, and love—are to be enjoyed. Beauty is part of them. [Q] What does this text teach us about beauty? ➢ How should we live in relation to the beauty of God’s creation? In the article, Stackhouse says that evangelicals generally don’t see the need for aesthetically pleasing church buildings because, they argue, the money could be better spent on evangelism or helping the poor. He thinks that Jesus’ acceptance of the extravagant gift of perfume from Mary (John 12) counters this pragmatic bent. [Q] What do you think? Teaching point two: The splendor of creation is a reflection...
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...Laura Rogers APOL104 – B08 September 5, 2012 Worldview Assignment Part I: What is a world view? A worldview is easily described as the person’s perception of the world around them and is the framework for decision making. You can think of a worldview like a pair of glasses. When you look out of those glasses what do you see? Dr. Weider in his presentation gave an example; if your glasses are red then everything around you will be red. (Weider & Gotierrez, 2011) This is the same for worldview. Everyone has a worldview if they know it or not. It’s how we organize our thinking about life, death, art, science, faith, learning, work, money, values, and morals. (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p.50) Worldview is our underlying philosophy of life. Part II: Articulate the biblical/Christian Worldview with Five Questions The Biblical Worldview begins with God and can be known through His creation of and revelation to humankind.(Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p.69) This revelation of God can be described as general revelation or special revelation. General Revelation is known by humans by two methods. The two methods are natural and the creation of men and women in His image. (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p.70) General revelation is limited in its scope because of the fall; now humans are separated from God and were limited from their natural ability to know and have that relationship with God. Special revelation is when God makes known vital truths which cannot be known through...
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...cloning (the creating of a new organism) and the therapeutic cloning (the creation of a new tissues or “other biological products”) which affects the ethics of human society. Scientists perceive cloning benefits all men and women, while religious leaders stress the idea of cloning to be an unethical process. Although human cloning serves as an aid to the children and parents with conflicts, cloning is completely unacceptable to convey human life as a product. Humans reproductively and therapeutically give the idea of people becoming a product rather than a living being. Siedler emphasizes that “reproductive cloning could also represent an enormous step in direction of transforming human procreation into human manufacture” (Siedler 91-92). In other words, reproductive cloning will create a world full of dolls that will remove every trace of living beings. Though it is hard to believe the world becoming a doll house for each family or community, it has come to a conclusion that the ability of cloning and “creating children” is questioning every person, “what does it mean to be a human?” (Yount 114). If it was not bad enough for this world to describe some of the people to be looked upon as nothing but a thing, cloning pushes the idea to a whole new level. “By opening the door to many things such as manipulation,” Yount states, as she desperately explains the fear in cloning, “of wanting to be someone else, it can treat them as objects instead of person,” (Yount 114). To even add the...
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