Social and Individual Responsibility in FrankensteinMary Shelly wrote Frankenstein in an age of wonder. One of the main questions was whether the dead could be brought back to life. The subject of resurrecting life from the dead was whether you could create your own being, like selective breeding but a little more powerful. Near where Mary lived, there was a man named Vultair who was experimenting with putting electricity into frogs to see if they could come back to life. With all of this happening around her, along with the fear of revolution and the pressure on her to think of a ghost story, it's no surprise that she thought of a horror story which would still be popular in the 21st century. Now I have explained where the story comes from and why it is the way it is, I will explain the social responsibility it evokes and how it is still important today. Caring for something you create is a point she brings up. Frankenstein created his creature so he should have taken care of it, but just because he didn't like the way it looked, he ran away. He never taught his creature anything, so the creature knew it might have been okay to kill people and such. This relates to today when some kids who weren't taught right and wrong by their parents are watching movies like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer where murder seems cool because it involves the deaths of Jennifer Love Hewit, Sarah Michelle Geller and Neve Cambell. Kids look at them and think "I want to be like that scary guy with the mask" and they'll try to kill someone. If they do, they are charged with the offense, but many people think that the children's parents should be blamed because they never taught the child right from wrong and they did not prevent the children (sometimes as young as eight or nine years old) to watch the video. which is rated eighteen or fifteen. When filmmakers hear that their film is responsible for a death, they never (except once) take the film away from the public and what they usually do is make a less violent sequel, which doesn't really help anyone and even less violence. There is some violence. Teaching a child about right and wrong is another point this brings up, but I feel I've covered that in the section above..