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We read Frankenstein to understand the impact Promethean ambition can have on societal standards of beauty and the individual's need to conform
Promethean Ambition - seeking to improve something in society, but proving unsuccessful as a result of human imperfection
Scientists created a procedure by which to double a person's life span as well as program them to be "beautiful"
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" -from Paradise Lost by John Milton, and the beginning of the book Frankenstein
Prometheus did not ask man if they wanted fire and war, the creature did not ask to be created
“How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness, but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips” (Shelly 35).
“There was a certain kind of beauty, a prettiness that everyone could see. Big eyes and full lips like a kid's; smooth, clear skin; symmetrical features; and a thousand other little clues. Somewhere in the backs of their minds, people were always looking for these markers. No one could help seeing them, no matter how they were brought up. A million years of evolution had made it part of the human brain." (2.47)
Changing society to meet standards of beauty
We read Frankenstein to understand
that:
Dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16.
Being "Pretty" can change not only your look but your personality - bubbly
Individualism is far more important than the need for uniformity and the elimination of personal will
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