Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium

Autores
Gastaldi, Sandra M.M
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
tesis de maestría
Estado
versión publicada
Colaborador/a o director/a de tesis
Aguirre, María Elena
Descripción
This thesis intends to analyse Mary Shelley‘s creature in her novel Frankenstein, and how the creation of this creature may have adumbrated the birth of present creatures—clones, genomes,1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) creatures like robots and androids—that spring from the latest technological and scientific advances. The Promethean ambition to play God in order to create life persists, and it is present today more than ever before. Within the frame of Cultural Studies and Intertextuality, I dwell upon the similarities and the differences between Mary Shelley´s creature and these ―brave new creatures.‖ Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein was provided with spiritual life and human characteristics such as suffering for love, neglect, and scorn, but the idea of the human as matter was already present in Shelley´s novel: Frankenstein was an ensemble of pieces of corpses. In this thesis I explore to which extent and how the creatures of the new millennium depart from or are similar to the original creature Frankenstein. In Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley had already speculated about genetic engineering, test tube babies, and a materialistic conception of human life. Today science and technology challenge us with a future new human race as the cases presented in this study. In view of all this, to ponder what the future may bring about is worth a try.
Materia
Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851 Frankenstein
Vida espiritual
Materialismo
Genoma
clones
Robots
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
Condiciones de uso
Repositorio
Repositorio Digital Universitario (UNC)
Institución
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
title Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
spellingShingle Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
Gastaldi, Sandra M.M
Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851 Frankenstein
Vida espiritual
Materialismo
Genoma
clones
Robots
title_short Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
title_full Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
title_fullStr Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
title_full_unstemmed Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
title_sort Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gastaldi, Sandra M.M
author Gastaldi, Sandra M.M
author_facet Gastaldi, Sandra M.M
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Aguirre, María Elena
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851 Frankenstein
Vida espiritual
Materialismo
Genoma
clones
Robots
topic Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851 Frankenstein
Vida espiritual
Materialismo
Genoma
clones
Robots
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This thesis intends to analyse Mary Shelley‘s creature in her novel Frankenstein, and how the creation of this creature may have adumbrated the birth of present creatures—clones, genomes,1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) creatures like robots and androids—that spring from the latest technological and scientific advances. The Promethean ambition to play God in order to create life persists, and it is present today more than ever before. Within the frame of Cultural Studies and Intertextuality, I dwell upon the similarities and the differences between Mary Shelley´s creature and these ―brave new creatures.‖ Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein was provided with spiritual life and human characteristics such as suffering for love, neglect, and scorn, but the idea of the human as matter was already present in Shelley´s novel: Frankenstein was an ensemble of pieces of corpses. In this thesis I explore to which extent and how the creatures of the new millennium depart from or are similar to the original creature Frankenstein. In Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley had already speculated about genetic engineering, test tube babies, and a materialistic conception of human life. Today science and technology challenge us with a future new human race as the cases presented in this study. In view of all this, to ponder what the future may bring about is worth a try.
description This thesis intends to analyse Mary Shelley‘s creature in her novel Frankenstein, and how the creation of this creature may have adumbrated the birth of present creatures—clones, genomes,1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) creatures like robots and androids—that spring from the latest technological and scientific advances. The Promethean ambition to play God in order to create life persists, and it is present today more than ever before. Within the frame of Cultural Studies and Intertextuality, I dwell upon the similarities and the differences between Mary Shelley´s creature and these ―brave new creatures.‖ Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein was provided with spiritual life and human characteristics such as suffering for love, neglect, and scorn, but the idea of the human as matter was already present in Shelley´s novel: Frankenstein was an ensemble of pieces of corpses. In this thesis I explore to which extent and how the creatures of the new millennium depart from or are similar to the original creature Frankenstein. In Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley had already speculated about genetic engineering, test tube babies, and a materialistic conception of human life. Today science and technology challenge us with a future new human race as the cases presented in this study. In view of all this, to ponder what the future may bring about is worth a try.
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