Comparing Frankenstein, Aylmer, and Dr. Phillips Essay...

Comparing Frankenstein, Aylmer, and Dr. Phillips Authors Mary Shelly, Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Steinbeck have all created scientists in at least one piece of their work. Mary Shellys character Frankenstein, from her novel Frankenstein, is a man who is trying to create life from death. Aylmer, the main character in Nathaniel Hawthornes short story The Birthmark, is a scientist who is trying to rid his wife of a birthmark on her almost perfect complexion. In John Steinbecks The Snake the main character Dr. Phillips is attempting to mate starfish until a woman interrupts his work to buy a snake. While written in different times by very different authors who have varying knowledge in science, the three characters†¦show more content†¦Both scientists seem crazy and have a God-Complex. Frankenstein states, A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me (pg 155). They both attempt to undo Gods work. Aylmer and Frankenstein worked relentlessly on thei r experiments, completely disregarded the outside world and allowing no one in while they worked. To Aylmer, his experiment was everything to him, it meant more to him than his wife and therefore he had the ability to control her for the sake of his experiment. Frankenstein spent his whole life trying to run away from his experiment, it controlled him. Neither of them had any forethought and because of that, their subjects suffered. Aylmer and Frankenstein exhibit similar qualities and at the same time show how very different they are. John Steinbecks character Dr. Phillips is a very different from the other two scientists but he still shares some similar qualities. Like Frankenstein, Dr. Phillips shows how careless he is with his work by missing a series of tests with mating starfish because he was busy watching the woman watch her snake eat a rat in his laboratory. There was a woman in Dr. Phillips life too, just like in Aylmers. But in Dr. Phillipss case the woman controll ed him and she was more important to him than his experiment. He thought she was repulsive at first, but once she leaves for good, he wants her back, which is a