...and wonderful forms include true moral agents who respond to real moral facts and who form a natural moral community. Their existence contributes to the grandeur of Darwin’s evolutionary view of life. What is a moral agent? A moral agent is a decision maker who chooses between right and wrong and is, therefore, morally responsible for his acts. In this essay I will argue that creature in Marry Shelly’s novel Frankenstein is not a moral agent. The monster in Marry Shelly’s novel Frankenstein is Victor Frankenstein's creation, assembled from old body parts and strange chemicals, spirited by the mysterious spark of life. He awakes eight feet tall and enormously strong but with the mind of a baby. Abandoned by his creator and confused, he tries to get accepted into society, only to be rejected. Looking at his reflection, he realizes his grotesqueness, a characteristic that hides his gentleness from society. He seeks revenge on his creator, killing Victor's younger brother. Later, after Victor destroys his work on the female monster, the monster murders Victor's best friend and then his new wife. What does it take to be able to choose between right and wrong? Moral agents must have enough knowledge and intelligence to understand how to apply moral principles and to choose whether to be guided by them in planning their actions. A moral agent also needs memory and self-consciousness, so he can remember and evaluate his options. Reason is a tool for achieving inborn...
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...humankind’s instinctive desire for self-preservation. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor decides to go beyond all boundaries of life and create something from the dead. He becomes all too obsessed with alchemy and human anatomy, that he takes his dark and twisted desires and creates a creature of whom he begins to refer to as a wretch and monster. Victor does all this with no intention of getting to know who the true person behind the ugly yellow skin is. By looking at Victor’s cruel actions and careless thoughts, it is evident that he resembles the true monster, thus revealing that mankind is inherently selfish. Victor has a thirst for knowledge as he becomes obsessed with alchemy and the human anatomy....
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...able to kill it? The notion of playing god like Victor did with the creatures in Frankenstein is comparative to the same issue the courts have with abortion laws. Various angles of abortion can be quite overwhelming as well as who makes the final decision. Many governments have struggled to strike what they believe to be a balance between the rights of pregnant women and the rights of fetuses. Before life is started, generally, an individual has thought about whether or not they want to create life. All life is created whether it is the creatures in Frankenstein or development of a fetus. Once life has been created choosing to end that life can cause many issues. The struggle of choosing between life and death could be avoided by an individual evaluating the results of creating a life before starting the process. There are many factors to be evaluated before initiating the process of creating life. Most individuals know whether they are ready to create life. The choice is a big decision that effects the rest of their life. The book Frankenstein starts by presenting Victor Frankenstein as an individual with a craving to create life. However, he does not choose to persuade this creation the normal way (having a child), instead he chooses to create a life from the parts of deceased individuals. Victor had many years to think about creating the monster, but never thought of the consequences of his action. Also, later in the novel Victor chooses to begin creating another creature without...
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...creation of the creature was for his sole knowledge to only better his curiosity. Some may say Victor Frankenstein does not portray a modern Prometheus. Although he may not be a god, he is to the creature. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is the modern Prometheus. Victor seeks for enlightenment and power, in which, Prometheus does as well.Victor does something forbidden; creating human life. Prometheus also does something forbidden; giving fire to humans. Victor, in return, serves a torturous death, as does Prometheus, although Prometheus cannot die. For these reasons this novel, Frankenstein, shows how Victor is the modern Prometheus. Undoubtedly both Victor Frankenstein and Prometheus seek for enlightenment and power. In the beginning of this novel Victor starts his childhood yearning for knowledge and reading books of science. The quote, “...eager desire to learn,..., secrets of heaven and earth that i desired to learn,..., my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical,…, the physical secrets of the world” (Shelley, 23). It shows how ambitious Victor was to learn as a child and how the start of his seeking for enlightenment and power came to be. Victor also foreshadows how misfortune had tainted his mind, “...misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections…”(Shelley, 24). This quote shows how at first he had psychedelic visions of helping and being convenient until a misfortune had...
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...Organization …………………………………………….12 C. Leadership Evaluation. ……………………………………………………….12 C.1. Evaluate three strengths of the chosen leader. …………………………12 C.2. Evaluate three weaknesses of the chosen leader. ………………………17 C.3. Recommend three theory-based practices to maximize the success of the chosen leader. …………………………………………………………………………18 References.…………………………………………………………………………. A.1. DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANIZATION AND ITS OBJECTIVES Postal, Tax and Travel Services, (henceforth addressed as TPS) is a one-man owned small business organization with two employees and located in Town A in State B. TPS was established in 1995 but incorporated in 2001. According to the owner/manager, Owner/ Manager/Chief Executive/Financial Officer, Chief Victor, TPS’s annual revenue is estimated at $140,000. TPS is a sales and services provider in the following categories providing Postal, Tax, Travel, and Money Transfer services. The main objective of TPS is to provide the best services in Postal, Tax, Travel, and Money Transfer services to customers through education, marketing and sometimes, counselling not only to customers in Town A but to 50 – mile radius of Town A and beyond.. TPS had evolved over the years from a small one-man postal outlet in 1995 in a back office in District M to its current location is in a busy shopping center alongside big grocery superstores,...
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...Love, Marriage, and Sexuality James Leno Ethics EG468 Samone Norsworthy April 7, 2012 Scenario 1 • As far as morals are concerned I feel that there is nothing morally incorrect with two people having a sex only relationship, and here is just a couple reasons why I feel this way. Two people have all the rights and a perfectly good reason for wanting to live together. First is the fact of emotional comfort, we as people long for the companionship of someone else. It will cause things such as stress and depression if this feeling is ignored and you go through life without some sort of companionship. Some people get a dog, some people enter into a no strings attached relationship, and some people never move out of their parent’s home due to this feeling. I feel that it is healthy to have someone to express yourself to sexually and physically and to also share your opinions and thoughts. In fact it is also to be considered to be smart business to do so, for one you have the financial strain of companionship that comes along with not having a live in partner. This means that if you are single and just please yourself through the one night stand type of relationship, that the cost of the hunt per say is usually more expensive than someone already at home. Two is the fact that there is a certain type of trust that you typically have in a sexual partner that you don’t have in any other friend, and you verbally open up more about things that you don’t share with others. Having a sexual...
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...one of four heroin dealers in the New York City area known as South Bronx. It is a story told by Victor Rosa, the main character referred to by many as Vic, as the viewer follows him around the city The movie begins by naming all the main drug dealers and their territories across the South Bronx region, Victor's territory noticeably bigger than the others. Out of the four competitors, we only see one that Victor has any trouble with later in the movie and that is the drug dealer known as Tito. Tito is another successful, Hispanic drug dealer who sells his product in the territory just south of Victor. Due to the location of these two territories it isn't uncommon to see a pedlar cross into another dealers area of sales. The first outbreak of violence between the two gangs erupts after Victor is informed by an appointed leader in his crew that one of Tito's men had been witnessed selling their product across the "invisible line". Usually these gang leaders wouldn't handle business themselves but when it comes to cutting into their profits, that is when the leader of the crew must make a statement by taking matters into their own hands. Victor and two of his men show up on the street corner where they find Tito's men continuing to push their product. The two members Victor arrived with proceed to raise their weapons at two of the opposing members keeping them at bay while Victor vigorously beats the one holding the product and cash, the same pedlar who had crossed the line....
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...(Date) (Instructors’’ Name) (Unit’s Name) (Date) Cause and Effects of Ethical Decision: A Comparison between two Movies The realities and practicalities of the world present steady suggestions that run through different movies with respect to ethical decisions. Just as business concentrates on efficient ethical decisions models to strike a balance between making profits, satisfying customers, and achieving stakeholder’s needs, movie directors continue to identify the right combinations of ethical decisions that main characters have to follow through their actions and scripts to foster ethical conduct. Ethical decisions made have causes and effects, consequences, framed in context of how a movie with different scripts can achieve its highest-priority themes and guarantee positive ratings. A 2012 film, The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross and 2014 film, Divergent, directed by Neil Burger presents two ideal films focusing on the ethical decisions made by the main characters. This essay aims at identifying the causes and effects of ethical decisions made by the main characters, the impacts of these decisions, how these decisions affect the society. The movie, Divergent, revolves around a society with five different factions: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and the Erudite. Members of ultramodern dystopian Chicago join any of the five groups based on their fondness but are, at first, given a proposition by an aptitude test. The group that controls the government...
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...Running head: LEADERSHIP Leadership Contemporary Business 508 Professor Posluns 2012 Leadership Entrepreneurial Leadership can be very interesting. Trying to understand what makes people do the things that they do. Finding out how they became so successful. Was it on purpose or was it pure luck. When people do the things that make them happy it does not feel like work. They will do what is passionate to them and when they look up, they are successful, admired, and highly respected. Dame Anita Roddick is a pure example of passion pays off Dame Anita Roddick took her love for the environment and social responsibility to another level. She came from selling natural body products to make a livihood for her and her children to a $16 billion company. The leadership style that best describes Dame Anita Roddick is transformational. She gives an example of how things can be different by walking the walk and talking the talk. She is one of the most controversial activists because she challenges people to do what is right. According to the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, "She campaigned for green issues for many years before it became fashionable to do so and inspired millions to the cause by bringing sustainable products to a mass market. As one of this country's most successful businesswomen, she was an inspiration to women throughout the country striving to set up and grow their own companies." (Shop, 2007) Dame Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon sold...
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...In the Beginning There Was Frankenstein Many have said that love makes the world go around but we are left with the question of who creates love? What would life be like if we had not experienced love and, ultimately, what would each of us be like without experiencing love? The Holy Bible provides numerous examples of a perfect love from the Creator and explains that people have been created to love. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, creates questions about the responsibility of a creator, and what can happen when some basic responsibilities of a creator are ignored. The novel describes a monster and his actions due to his creator abandoning him. Throughout Mary Shelley’s novel, there is the question of who really is the monster? Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the monster, can easily be compared to the Judeo-Christian God and the story of creation found in the book of Genesis. The God referred to as the creator of all mankind is driven by love for his creation, but Victor Frankenstein is driven to create by his own personal ideas of grandiosity and ego. The Holy Bible is the account of the Judeo-Christian God’s action in the world and his purpose for all creation. The writing of the Holy Bible took place over sixteen centuries, and is the work of over forty human authors. There are sixty-six books that provide various lessons for living and moral conduct, examples of love from a Creator, and a starting point for creation. In Genesis, the...
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...been otherwise since Maxi lives in a straight, sordid world. His father (played brilliantly by Soliman Cruz) is a petty thief; he has passed on the trade to Maxi’s “brusko” brothers, Bogs (Neil Ryan Sese) and Boy (Ping Medina). Maxi doesn’t quite become Boney to this family of Clydes since he has stopped schooling in order to keep house and fill it with the scents of his merry cooking and the grace and charm of his presence. He becomes their Ma Barker minus the advanced years, the menacing scowl, and the trigger-happy machine gun. When Maxi is rescued from neighborhood thugs by a kind rookie cop, Victor, (J.R. Valentin), he switches from bloody mama to damsel in distress. He finds himself uncontrollably smitten with the handsome cop to the point that he becomes prone to Victor’s naive attempts to pry information from him about his father and siblings. When they gang up on Victor and teach him a lesson, Maxi is horrified and comes to his rescue. He nurses Victor’s bruises and steals a kiss from him. But it cannot just...
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...Entrepreneurial Leadership can be very interesting. Trying to understand what makes people do the things that they do. Finding out how they became so successful. Was it on purpose or was it pure luck. When people do the things that make them happy it does not feel like work. They will do what is passionate to them and when they look up, they are successful, admired, and highly respected. Dame Anita Roddick is a pure example of passion pays off Dame Anita Roddick took her love for the environment and social responsibility to another level. She came from selling natural body products to make a livihood for her and her children to a $16 billion company. The leadership style that best describes Dame Anita Roddick is transformational. She gives an example of how things can be different by walking the walk and talking the talk. She is one of the most controversial activists because she challenges people to do what is right. According to the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, "She campaigned for green issues for many years before it became fashionable to do so and inspired millions to the cause by bringing sustainable products to a mass market. As one of this country's most successful businesswomen, she was an inspiration to women throughout the country striving to set up and grow their own companies." (Shop, 2007) Dame Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon sold their business “The Body Shop” to L’Oreal Cosmetics. The Roddicks’ believe that L’Oreal understood what type...
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...evaluating the novel, the reader will notice that the idea of gender is an underlying theme throughout the story. There is a broad structural duplication in the novel that correlates to this idea of gender which reaffirms this strong theme and how it affects the story’s outcomes. For example, according to Shelly, the time it took to complete the novel consisted of nine months, Walton’s journey lasts nine months, and Victor takes nine months (winter, spring, summer) to create the Creature. This, all of course equal to the time it takes to create human life; the length a woman is pregnant with a child. Although it may not appear to be important to the novel, Shelly makes sure that reproduction by implication becomes a central motif of the text, as we will discuss later. As the narrative is written from the perspective of three men, the women follow more of a romanticized, idealized figure as compared to the male characters present throughout the story. Shelly characterizes each woman as passive, disposable and serving a utilitarian function, while the men are portrayed at the ultimate being. Female characters like Elizabeth and Justine provide nothing more but a channel of action for the male characters in the novel. Additionally, the story of Victor details his efforts to usurp the role of women, primarily by creating life himself. In his second creation, a female monster, Frankenstein becomes repulsed by the possibility of reproduction among the monsters and ultimately destroys...
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...Reading Between the Lines: An analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus, using Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto as an example of male discourse about women Louise Othello Knudsen English Almen, 10th semester Master’s Thesis 31-07-2012 Tabel of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Historical Context .............................................................................................................................. 10 The View on Women and Their Expected Roles in the late 18th and 19th Century ....................... 11 - Mary Shelley disowns herself .................................................................................................. 11 - Mary Shelley’s Background .................................................................................................... 12 Women’s Role in Frankenstein ..................................................................................................... 13 Men’s Role in Frankenstein ........................................................................................................... 13 - Women in Society and Women as Writers .........................................................
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