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Biblical allusions – humanity involves the capacity to be both good and evil
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“Whether subtle or not, people adhering to any type of faith(including atheism) provides a deeply rooted sense of morals. For most people religion is something very “close to home”.
As a reader, you form opinions on characters and their actions due to the contrast in your morals. A character kills an innocent person, you conclude that that is wrong because you think it is immoral to murder someone. SO OBVIOUS, but as things become more complex, our minds shift more to our religious-based morals to generate our opinions
…..Then throughout the book we are even more troubled with the idea that ‘a creator’ could be so opposite of our(Christian) benevolent creator.
My thoughts: Perhaps Shelley, an atheist did not believe in God because she saw the ‘mess’ that humanity was, and felt as though we had been neglected and become tainted through the lack of father ship from our Creator (God), which she represents in the novel where Frankenstein is the neglecting creator and the Creature is the messed-up creation.
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