Finally, Frankenstein worries that the Monster and his female companion might have children, and eventually give rise to a new species which might destroy mankind. He concludes that it would be selfish for him to create a companion for the Monster in order to save his own life. This decision shows that Frankenstein is motivated by the desire to do the right thing, but it also shows that he is still driven and ambitious.
He is determined to choose the more difficult path, even if that path costs him his life and the lives of the people he loves. Walton turns his ship around because he feels responsible for his crew.
Robert Walton is a well-to-do explorer from England. Like Victor Frankenstein, he has a great ambition to be a pioneer in the field of science—in his case, to be the first person to set foot on the North Pole and perhaps discover a northern passage to the Pacific. When he awakes to find the Monster standing over him, smiling, Frankenstein rushes from the room, terrified, ashamed, and regretful for creating the Monster. After receiving a shocking letter from his father telling him that William has been murdered, Frankenstein departs home to Geneva.
When he arrives, it is nighttime, and the gates of Geneva are shut, so he decides to explore the woods where William was killed. Unbeknownst to Justine, the Monster planted the locket in her pocket to frame her for the murder. In reality, the Monster killed Clerval. Frankenstein wants to protect Elizabeth. However, the Monster is clever and may have told Walton he was going to kill himself only so Walton would not pursue him.
In the days leading up to his death, Frankenstein regrets that he will die before destroying the Monster, revealing that he understands that creating the Monster was a mistake. His travels carry him near Geneva, where he meets William Frankenstein, Victor's youngest brother.
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Where does the monster decide to go after burning the cottage? She lives in hiding with her human husband, and initially believes herself to be human: "She'd persisted in denying the truth even when the evidence had begun to stack and stack".
Ironically, a very human trait. The tension in the story comes both from her own growing discovery of her true nature, and from her pursuit by the authorities and her need to flee or fight to protect her existence. Like Frankenstein's monster, in theory Evie has the potential to be anything, but is limited by how her maker made her. She has to escape the bonds of her existence. The Actuality offers a rich contemplation of ethical and philosophical questions about artificial life and intelligence.
Where does life begin and end? If an AAB like Evie can simulate consciousness, does she have rights? Conversely, if she kills a real human being, can she be held responsible?
In the story Evie is modelled after a real woman and, explains Braddon, "she is regulated by her programming to emulate someone she has never met and behave as they would — her 'unforgiving quest to be second best' — but even so, she must still choose between right and wrong".
When Evie is on the run, her decisions "have life or death consequences", says Braddon. Of course for an artificial human to be realistic, to match the rest of us, it has to be a chaotic blend of right and wrong, to find its way by picking through the wreckage of its own bad decisions.
Another recent example is the creature called the Whatitsname in Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in In war-torn Iraq in the early s, a junk dealer called Hadi assembles a being from the body parts of people killed in the conflict. A man-made human-like being is at the centre of Ahmed Saadawi's satirical novel Frankenstein in Baghdad Credit: Bloomsbury.
But the Whatitsname goes missing, and sets about a retributive rampage, like the original Frankenstein's monster. Saadawi's vision is satirical, the blackest of comedy about tit-for-tat killings and the dehumanisation of people in war: the creature finds that as it avenges each death, its corresponding body parts fall off, so it has to kill more people to replace them.
Eventually "he knew his mission was essentially to kill, to kill new people every day, but he no longer had a clear idea who should be killed or why". This most modern of monsters even gives a press conference to justify his actions and mock his creator, a child rebelling against his parent: "You were just a conduit, Hadi. Think how many stupid mothers and fathers have produced great men in history. For Saadawi, the monster is "the mirror image of us as a whole" , reflecting how people in Iraq "became either active participants in the killing or indifferent toward scenes of death".
Speaking to BBC World Service's The Cultural Frontline , he said that "we like to see ourselves as victims and see others as aggressors, but in this case [the Whatsitsname] was both the aggressor and the victim" — much like Victor Frankenstein's creation — and he represents the "monster inside everybody — not just in Iraqis but everywhere".
The stitched-together creature, in other words, is a patchwork of our best and worst human characteristics. How could it be otherwise? In Frankenstein, the human society that rejected the monstrous-looking creature triggered his killing spree.
Paul Braddon had this in mind too when writing The Actuality: "I do have concerns as to how we as humans would interact with such a class. When the narrator of the novel is itself an AI creature, big questions about humanity are posed Credit: Getty Images. Central to these stories is not only the relationship of the artificial human to their creator but also the purpose of their creation.
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