2. Within much of the reading I see that
much of the characters look for a
purpose in life. The purpose could be
love to changing the world but in the
end I think everybody seeks a purpose
and wants to serve that purpose.
3. In the story Frankenstein we see the
creature wanting people to except him not
for his conformity but for who he is on the
inside. I also see that he wants to belong, he
wants to be able to experience love from
another, whether human or inhuman. I feel
that many people want this in life.
He felt no sympathy from any human in fact
while and even when he tried to help it only
made things worst for him and this can
drive any man or creature into a rage or
even to kill.
“I have love in me the likes of which you can
scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which
you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the
one, I will indulge the other.” I say that is
the hardest thing someone when you want
to love but no one else wants to show that
emotion to you.
4.
5. In R.U.R the robots had a only one purpose
and that was to be servants to human kind
and do there will. I think that every one
deserves a chance to change their purpose
and that’s why I believe Radius drove to
killing all humans. I think because his
brain was bigger than the others he was
able to think about his purpose and maybe
it was to role rather than be ruled. I felt
that he knew that he was meant for more
than just working for the humans, maybe
to lead them.
So maybe people purpose isn’t as ethical as
others or even be a noble purpose like for
instance, Frankenstein finding love and
belonging.
6. If you were just a carrier what would you do?
Could you just be someone else's organs.
When someone plans your path as if they own
you it is very hard to break that path. Just ask
the children from Never let Me Go. They went
through life but did they really have the option
to actually live it. People already set there lives
out and the end they die at a early age because
the are donors.
I think that people who try to set your own
destiny is just as if people is taking or setting
your own purpose in life and that is exactly
what those people did to those kids. “Your life
must now run the course that's been set for
it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
That’s exactly what happen in the book. We
see kids being raised, and even though
Hailsham was created to give these kids a
second chance, in the end they died not having
a purpose of their own.
7.
8. My next connection that I want to analyze is
the story Beautiful White Bodies. In this story
we have the main character, Justine, who’s
friend, Pearl, is said to not be the most
attractive woman but she wishes to be. I feel as
though this makes Pearl very shallow here we
have Frankenstein who believes himself to be a
monster who doesn’t have a place to call home
but Pearl who has a friend and parents who
care for her.
What makes beauty? Pearl wishes to be
“beautiful”, while we have others just wishing
to be accepted. When I first read this story I
thought that she only wished to be accepted
and for a while I thought she wanted a
purpose and that was to be accepted. However,
this isn’t the case at all. Therefore, I came to
the conclusion that her purpose was to be
merely beautiful and no matter how vain her
purpose was it was indeed her purpose.
9. In the story The Girl Who Was Plugged In I
see that P. Burke became something more in
the end. As you first read it, P. Burke kinds
of mind you have Pearl but as the story
progresses it changes. You soon noticed that
she falls in love and maybe not really her
but Delphia but still in love in a since. I
think that P. Burke just really wanted to be
love and to love someone else.
I guess she kind of figured that in order to
achieve that she had to look and be a
celebrity or at least beautiful.
Its kind of funny here you have someone
who would give up their humanity to find
love and in Frankenstein the creature wants
to find love through humanity. Which draws
me to this question
10. What makes humanity? I noticed that in
the stories I named and a few I didn’t there
is another connection. The things that are
called “humans” in these stories, in my
opinion are the real monsters. For instance,
the people who abused the creature in
Frankenstein, to the people who had the
robots do their work in R.U.R or in the
Machine Stops. Another story is Never Let
Me Go, where clones of people are treated
like things instead of human beings same in
Blade Runner I think.
After this class I just thought to myself and
asked myself over and over again what
makes us humans? I would like to say
purpose but maybe its something that goes
deeper than just merely a purpose maybe it’s
the meaning of that purpose?
