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Mary Shelley’s Cloning If we look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, cloning and the moral issues surrounding it become prevalent. The creature in the novel was in essence and by definition a human clone. The real monster in the story, though, was doctor Frankenstein himself. He attempts to do humanity a service by searching for a way to cheat death and perpetuate life. In doing so, the doctor creates a being that ironically takes …

…to push the actuality of cloning further ahead. To reiterate, the novel was one extreme view. It could be possible that what happened in the book would happen in real life, but in reality the chances are slim that it will. Our societal structure is made to be exceptionally flexible and a “wrench” to the system such as a clone should not affect it to any significant degree as it did in Shelley’s Frankenstein.