This document discusses the relationship between science and reality through an analysis of Frankenstein. It addresses how science can enable both benefits like medical advances but also risks if experiments go wrong. It examines several types of science including stem cell research, artificial intelligence, and cloning. While recognizing science's potential, the document argues it should have limitations and oversight to avoid unintended consequences like Victor Frankenstein's creation. Overall, it believes science will continue solving problems but must be pursued carefully.

1. Jonathan Davila
English 4, P.4
March 24, 2010
The Struggle between Science and Reality
Science is a great way to discover new things. Science
can help us invent new technology and can help us succeed
in medical advances. Science can be dangerous, because
something can always go wrong. In Frankenstein, Victor
creates a creature that he thought would never be able to
think on its own, but he later discovers that his creation
had a mind of its own and eventually led Victor to his own
demise. Science should have limitations, because many
times, we can make a mistake and our experiments can go
wrong. Science can be both good and bad, but in my opinion
it is good. Morals can many times get in the way of medical
advances, because many people will oppose medical advances.
In science, sometimes we will need to sacrifice living
creatures in order to get scientific results. In the future
science may resolve many of our medical issues and may
allow us to create new life, and even make us go to places
we never would have imagined.
Science is currently working on Stem Cell Research.
This type of science can be good for making cells that can
help our bodies. It can also be dangerous if not planned
out correctly. Stem cell research can help us to create new

2. life and may be used one day to help a person live a longer
life. “To examine the causes of life, we must first have
recourse to death.”(Shelley 37) This quote shows us that
Victor begins to study the causes of death in order to
examine the causes of life. This quote should have freedoms
because we can discover many cures of death and the causes.
Scientist must learn how to use stem cells in order to
create cells that can help our human body fight off
infections and other diseases.
Artificial intelligence is another type of science in
which we make robots that can think on there own. Machines
will be capable of doing work for us but could also decide
to disobey and turn against human kind. “The different
accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of
human nature.”(Shelley 42) This quote shows us Victor
describing how creating the Creation changed his view of
human nature. This type of intelligence should have
limitations, because this can cause our destruction by our
own hands. We should always be careful when creating
something, because we can create something that can
backfire.
Cloning is a science in which we copy cells and DNA of
a person and make exact copies of them. Cloning can help a
person live even after death by using an alternate body

3. that matches every feature of the original. “I collected
the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a
spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my
feet.”(Shelley 43) In Frankenstein, Victor begins to plan
out the steps that it will take to create the creation, but
does not think about what can go wrong. This shows us that
we should limit our knowledge in what we create and we
should know when to stop. When cloning a human being it
will always be important that every detail is planned
correctly so that nothing can go wrong.
Science will always have its goods and bads, but it
will always be there to give us knowledge of our world. I
believe in the future science will help to accomplish many
scientific advances that we could have never imagined.
Science will allow us to create new life and will be able
to take us to places we would have never imagined. Science
will help us to find cures for diseases and may even make
us immune to diseases that currently affect our world. I
believe that science will always be in our society, because
it is an important way of understating how our world works
and how it can affect our lives.