Frankenstein Research Paper

            Everyone is faced with hard situations that require one to consider his or her actions as there are consequences to bear with. Choices of actions are out of free will and hence people have to live with some of these consequences throughout their lives as some are permanent consequences and others are just temporary but they leave an impact. People who make rash decision on the action to take in a given situation fails to see and consider some of these actions. To take responsibility of one’s actions is to recognize what one has done and accept the outcome of one’s actions. This paper, therefore, will major on Frankenstein’s novel to demonstrate some of the consequences that we face if we fail to take responsibility for our actions.

            Frankenstein is not an exception as he is also a victim who failed to take responsibility for his actions. He had so many opportunities to take care of his problem, that is his creation of the creature but he failed to take responsibility. He should have been accountable at the onset of the creation of this creature but he allowed the creature to continue growing (Marsh 96).  As a result of his failure in taking responsibility, he ended up creating a sad and unloved creature as he also failed to teach it of what the world entailed.  It thus led to his own destruction and that of those who are dear to him and those that surround him. He indirectly caused the killing of William and Justine. After this incidence, he was then given another opportunity to take responsibility for this creature at that time when the creature approached him but he did not. This angered the creature and killed two more other people, that is; Henry as well as Elizabeth. He finally tried to chase down the monster as he realized his mistake but it was too late for him and this led to his own destruction as he ended up being killed by this creature.  He thus states that, “I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me” (20.1). This final killing by the creature was a consequence to him for having failed to take responsibility for his own action of creating the creature (Marsh 96).

            Human population has increased rapidly over the years across the world and this has ultimately resulted into an increased demand in our natural resources. The high need for settlement places has resulted to deforestation cases and thus reducing the tropical forests. Also the people’s need for maximization of profits through industrialization and urbanization has resulted to construction of many industries that emit greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. These industries have also cleared most of the vegetation and forests with an aim of acquiring land for settlement (Miller n.p).  This action by the humans who have not yet taken full responsibility for their action has resulted to the destruction of our global climate as well as biodiversity.  Greenhouse gases pollution has resulted to the change in climate with increased temperatures thus affecting the biodiversity distribution and causing the extinction of some of these species. As people overexploit these natural resources such as the tropical forests there are species that are extinct and hence resulting to habitat change that attracts other alien species which increase competition and hence results to the extinction of the indigenous species which cannot cope up with these species. The lack of responsibility for the humans’ action upon their natural resources will constantly increase the intensity of destruction up-to that point of no return (Miller n.p).

            Overdependence of humans on varieties of plants and animals as sources of food has resulted to the humans engaging in activities that are harmful to the environment and the outcome is the biodiversity loss. The human induced environments that are believed to increase agricultural productivity, has eliminated habitats for these biodiversity, killed some of the living organisms, minimized the number of the genetic diversity thus causing a dramatic extinction of species (Miller n.p). The failure of the human to take responsibility for their unsustainable action has acted as a threat to the world’s biodiversity.

            Currently most of the people have made agriculture to be an economic activity and hence they have given more priority on this economic aspect of agriculture rather than carrying out sustainable agriculture. This lack of responsibility by the humans has resulted to the loss of the biodiversity as intensive agriculture is carried out with increased use of the natural resources such as water and also with the use of agrochemicals which pollute the water resources and the environment thus destroying some of the species (Miller n.p).

            It is therefore important to note that if we fail to take full responsibility for our actions, destruction is to be expected. If we fail to take responsibility for our actions we are bound to make these mistakes over and over again. Human nature makes the humans to have a tendency of failing to think and evaluate the outcomes of something before taking an action and they usually realize their mistake when it is already too late or when they have repeated the same mistake. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Miller  D.A. Global Biodiversity Losses Are Approaching Tipping Points of No Return. Greenhaven Press, 2013.

Miller  D.A. Industrial Agriculture Is a Major Threat to Biodiversity. Greenhaven Press, 2013.

Miller  D.A. Agricultural Productivity Does Not Have to Result in Biodiversity Loss. Greenhaven Press, 2013.

Marsh, Nicholas. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Internet resource.