Advise
Dr. Frankenstein, as an 18th century scientist (natural philosopher), about
the conflicts between Scientific Knowledge and Social Responsibility from
the perspective of contemporary character, John “The Savage” living in
his own technological world.
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I received your
letter four days ago and thank you for your concern. I am so sorry
that I did not respond to your letter as soon because I exhausted from
the world around me. In your letter, you asked me what I think of
your recent experiments. I do not mean to be rude to you, Dr., and I know
that I am just a child that does not know much about scientific knowledge.
I only know from my mother and Shakespeare- The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare. But one mistake that I see in your experiment is that:
you “gave birth” to a newborn creature but you did not take good care of
it. Also the society did not accept this creature because it looked
scary to them. So the creature felt bad and he had to learn everything
by himself. I think you should have helped him by finding him and
give him love and a home.
I also do not
think you should make any more creatures. The creature you already
made has suffered too much. Besides, children should be born in a
natural way and live as human beings. Through my own experience,
I realized what it meant to have a human feels: mind, soul, and body.
If we look at the children bore from test tubes in England, they do not
act human. They were so awful because they laughed at me when my
mother died. I felt so bad because the emotional feeling that have
in me was different from them. Also my mother, Linda who was
raised in England did not let me call her “mother” because she thought
being naturally born was dirty and wrong. When I stopped her of not
to cry, “Linda. Oh, mother, don’t” (page 127). She said, “I’m not your
mother. I won’t be your mother.” Then she slapped me for the punishment
of calling her “mother”. I think what Linda thinks is exactly like
what you have been doing. She wanted to have a baby through the technology
experience. What you have been doing is you created a creature through
your lack of scientific knowledge. Children should be born naturally
and raised by their parents and family. Babies-human should bear
in the mother wombs. So in the first place you should have not make this
monster because even though your love ones. Human should deserve
care and kindness from parents and the societies.
I also tired
of Linda that have a feeling of against me; Linda always thinks that carry
baby in her womb was an uncivilized. She wanted the place that she
was belonging to, civilianized, England. England was a place that
full of scientific test tubes experiments.
Then a month ago that Linda and
I had been moved to England. The visitors of the Savage, Lenina Crowne
and Bernard Marx , invited us to come. Even though that I think I
would be out of the sight of the Savage, I thought coming to England made
me feel even more strongly great new world. I am not even fit in
England’s society either because people here taking too much soma .
Do you know what soma is? Soma is a kind of drug that makes people
happy all the time and almost all of the people in England take this drug,
so they have no real emotional feeling. They do not know what sad
feels like; they knew only how to make themselves happy through soma.
One of the English women said, “I’d better take a couple of grammes of
soma.” (Page 178). They wanted me to take soma too, but I did not
want to take it because I want to be a human being.
You had told me that the creature
came to you and asked you to make a female creature for him, right?
I understand how the monster feels exactly because I wanted a maid.
He wanted a maid because he was lonely; the society was scare of his ugliness.
He had to find the place for himself to be and life became hard and harder
for him. So he has to find somewhere else that he could be away from
people that scare of him. He had to go through, “The winter
advance, and entire revolution of the seasons had taken place since I awoke
into life. My attention, at this time, was solely directed towards
my plan of introducing myself into the cottage of my protectors.
I revolved many projects; but that on which I finally fixed was. To enter
the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone. I had sagacity enough
to discover, that the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief
object to horror with those who had formerly beheld me. My voice,
although harsh, had nothing terrible in it; I thought therefore, that if.
In the absence of his children, I could gain the good will and mediation
of the old De lacy! I might by his means, be tolerated by my young protectors.”
(page 89) I feel so sorry to monster and I know that you are not
very happy about it. Many if you take my advice above, it might be
a little help for you and the monster.
This creature want a maid, I want
a maid, you want a maid, and of course every one do want their maids.
You married to Elizabeth Lavenza and when he saw the life of happiness
that human have, he would want something the same too. This feeling
is the feeling that all of us have in common. But may be the monster
thought that you were selfishness that was why he said; “I will be with
you on your wedding night.” He was so angry at you about your
wedding because he asked you to create a maid for him, but you did not
and now you getting marry? If you should have told others on your experience
with the built up the new creature, they might give you advice or have
helped you through.
When I was at
the Savage, I was alone, I wished to have friends instead of having someone
that thrown rocks on me because of my mother perspectives. Here in
England, I thought it would be the place that society here would be fit
with my nature, but I still alone. I wanted to marry her so bad because
we were falling in love, but she did not want to. She wanted to just
having sex with me. I called names on her because I did not think
or know like human would think. She did not even know what it means
to marry, sad and cry? So I went into a lighthouse because I want
to be alone and to purify myself. Whenever I think of Lenina, I whipping
myself because I felt regret. One day Lenina and the reporters came
to the lighthouse and I was whipping her and those reporters plus myself.
I thought of these people were not human being because they all taking
soma. Soma and the technology tools had guided her and those people’s lives.
I was so regret; it is too late to apologize. Now I am in a lighthouse
all by myself. I saw a pen and couple pieces of black sheet, then
I decided to write a good-bye letter to you and Lenina. I hope there
would be someone that walk by and willing to get these two letters for
you and Lenina. Beside the fact that I understand feeling bad for
the monster because he is alone, I do not think you should create him a
partner.
I hope this
would help to reduce your stressfulness about this creature. You
can take sometime and think about it because it is very important to the
society and this creature itself. I understand exactly how he feels because
I am had been through a life that society did not accept who I was.
The Savage denied me because I was different from them, I was all alone.
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