Frankenstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer both had knowledge that was positive but also could be negative. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the top of his class and was a amazing scientist. He could build a hydrogen bomb that could blow up thousands of people or a even whole city. Victor was a scientist that studied chemical processes and the decay of living beings, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creations. Frankenstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer had knowledge that was positive and negative.
J. Robert Oppenheimer is compared and contrasted to Victor because J. Robert Oppenheimer was a scientist that could build a hydrogen bomb, that could destroy thousands of people. He worked at the AEC, that's…show more content… Robert Oppenheimer is compared and contrasted to Victor because Victor frankenstein was amazing scientist that studied chemical processes and the decay of living beings, He gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creations. Victor is a modern scientist unleashed upon an unsuspecting society. Victor becomes obsessed with the idea of creating the human form and acts upon it. After creating the Monster his first creation he realized what he done. “ Had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” pg 47. Victor made his first creation but he is scared of what he had done. “He was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered captive of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” pg 48. Victor, who must satisfy his urge to know all and use the learning he had learned in school to create a new race of man, but His excesses ultimately destroy him because he understands that making a new life always has its negatives. Victor late ron realizes that not everybody fits into society. “It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement and enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.” pg 76. He is consumed by the desire to discover the secret of life and after years of research he becomes convinced that he has found
