76). Frankenstein sees these innovations as overpowering and finally giving humans the power of god. Frankenstein believes that through these new scientific powers human kind would be served with a positive effect. Shelly sees scientists as not only striving to rid the world of disease and such things, but also seeking personal glory in the process. .
"What glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!"(Shelly, p. 69).
Shelley characterizes Frankenstein as a modern a "mad scientist." One who fails to look at the moral and social implications when attempting to play god. Frankenstein becomes obsessed with the power to master nature and create a new life. In creating life, and ultimately the creature, Victor Frankenstein seeks unlimited power to the extent that he is taking the place of God in relation to his creation. Frankenstein envisions, "a new species [that] would bless [him] as its creator and source [and] many happy and excellent natures [that] would owe their being to [him]" (Shelly, p. 82). Frankenstein also believes that there may be little end to his power and that he, "might in process of time renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption" (Shelly, p. 82). In order to create the new life Frankenstein must look beyond moral obligation and dehumanize the act of life. He exploits natures" resources in his obsession to manipulate nature. For Frankenstein death and decay have no morality as the process is merely scientific. He observes " the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life [and] saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain"(Shelly, p. 79). It is this vantage point that allows Frankenstein to gather the bones and body parts from dissecting rooms and slaughterhouses and to look at them only as materials for his product. He never once looks at each bone or body part as a whole, and thus as what used to be a person.