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... their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed preformed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend into the heavens: they have discovered how the blood circulates and the nature of the air we breathe (Shelley 49). In science, small discoveries that at first do not seem ... ...
... thought he had. Eventually after the loss of Victor, the monster declares, "I shall die, and what I now feel be longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames."(Shelley 161). This declaration shows that the monster rather burn himself to death versus dealing with ... ...
... , God. Shelly also reflects the fear that more traditional, religious individuals had about the proliferation of scientific thought during the Enlightenment. Shelly sees scientists like Frankenstein as believing they have ascend[ed] into the heavens [and] acquired new and almost unlimited powers [allowing them to] command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world of its ... ...
