This document summarizes Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and discusses the theme of science versus nature. It notes that Frankenstein warns about the misuse of science and the creation of the monster as a result of Victor Frankenstein's unsuccessful scientific experiment interfering with nature. The document also discusses how Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde portrays a man trying to control a secret of nature through science. It concludes that the science portrayed in these works never achieved positive results and that nature knows what is best.

1. Science vs Nature in ‘Frankenstein’
-Marry Shelley
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2. Prepared by Gayatri Nimavat
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3. Points to ponder
❧ Introduction
❧ About Author
❧ Science vs nature
❧ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
❧ Other examples
❧ Conclusion
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Which is more
powerful, science
or nature?
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5. Introduction
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● Gothic novel and philosophical novel.
● Early example of science fiction.
● Narrates the dreadful consequences that
arise after a scientist has artificially created
a human being.
● Warns about the misuse of science and
relates the phenomenal aspect of scientific
disasters with the accidental creation of a
monster named Frankenstein as a result of
an unsuccessful scientific
experiment.(Hammond)

6. ❧ English Romantic novelist
❧ The only daughter of William
Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft
❧ Best-known book is Frankenstein;
or, The Modern Prometheus (1818,
revised 1831), a text that is part
Gothic novel and part
philosophical novel.(Kuiper)
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Marry Shelley (1797-1851)

7. Science vs Nature
❧ The perils of scientific interference with
nature.
❧ Victor’s thrilling discovery of the deep
“enticements of science”. (Holmes)
❧ Trying to accomplish his mission by going
against nature.
❧ Creature declares himself Frankenstein's
unique responsibility.(Hammond)
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8. ❧ Novel Claims on science.
❧ Popular interpretation as an anti-
science myth.
❧ Perverted science, Playing to God,
Messing with nature.(Hammond)
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9. A Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
❧ Dr. Jekyll did use science to change himself.
❧ His search to control some powerful secret
of nature.
❧ R.L.Stevenson potray a Strange and
imaginary conception of a dual human
personality.
❧ Like victor Frankenstein, dr. Jekyll also tried
messing with nature.(Servitje)
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10. Other examples
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11. Conclusion
❧ Thus, We can say that the science portrayed in this
novel never reached any human positively as did
nature.
❧ Nature knows what was best and will make things
right.
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12. Works Cited
Hammond, Kim. “Monsters of Modernity: Frankenstein and Modern Environmentalism.” Cultural Geographies, vol. 11,
no. 2, 2004, pp. 181–98. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44250971. Accessed 12 Oct. 2022.
Holmes, Richard. “Science Fiction: The Science That Fed Frankenstein.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 27
July 2016, www.nature.com/articles/535490a.
Kuiper, Kathleen. "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley". Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2022,
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Shelley. Accessed 14 October 2022.
Servitje, Lorenzo. “The Not-so-Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Antibiotic Research: An Interdisciplinary
Opportunity.” Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), MDPI, 28 Dec. 2020,
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824619/.
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Thank you
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