Daniel Kokotz wrote Frankenstein’s Failures to talk about the philosophical problems surrounding Victor Frankenstein and the creation of the daemon along with his failures. Throughout this paper, he brings up several important points such as Victor’s goals, Enhancement, Victor’s faults with the monster, the Midas Problem, and desirability. Daniel Kokotz’s First idea is about Victor’s two main goals involving the creation of the daemon and Enhancement. Victor’s two goals were to discover the secrets of creation along with discovering a new way to combat disease, and he wanted to use enhancement to improve the quality of life for humans because we are stupendously under-equipped to live in the harshness of nature due to our only evolutionary advantage being our brain. While most animals enhance their bodies to meet nature, we humans change the nature around us to meet our bodies. Kokotz says that we can beat our long time enemy, disease and death with technological enhancements to our bodies such as victor tried to do. Kokotz later says “Human nature, it …show more content…
Kokotz describes the Midas problem by saying it is something you wanted at first but later ended up hating. Kokotz relates this to Victor Frankenstein by mentioning that his creation of the daemon fulfilled his two goals, however, with hindsight Victor realized that the daemon was completely undesirable. Kokotz warns us of desiring something that we do not know everything about because what we get may not be what we want, like in Victors case, he did, in fact, achieve his goals but did it in a manner that ended poorly. Kokotz then says how we can learn from Victor’s story that enhancement does not always mean it will come out better, similarly, “if something is enhanced, it is made better but only regarding the attribute that the enhancement is meant for, and that does not mean the enhancement itself will be used for