It is with this revelation that Frankenstein reveals its irony. What Frankenstein and the entire scientific world want is to create and save human lives. Dorothy Nelkin, in her essay "Genetics, God, and Sacred DNA" articulates the similarities. He writes that while Christians pursue a pious lifestyle to secure their eternal place in heaven, "research touts offers to preserve a person's genetic heritage as 'the closest chance at immortality that people have at the moment.' " (Society, 24). She argues that “DNA, in many descriptions, shares striking qualities with the Christian soul… It appears as relatively independent of the body, giving the body life, power, and true identity.” These parallels between such opposing ideologies of the past are too obvious to ignore. Although she doesn't express it literally, Shelley implies that it is actually electricity that sparks Frankenstein's interest and is what he uses to animate the monster. In his childhood experience, when Victor sees lightning strike a tree, he learns from "the man of great research..." the explanation of a theory he had formulated on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at the same time new and surprising to him. Victor" (Shelley, 41). In the terrible night of the creature's creation, Frankenstein "breathes the spark of life" into the monster's lifeless body (Shelly, 57). Finally, Shelley's mirroring of character between Frankenstein and Walton serves as contrast between his fears and his hopes for what the future of science is worth. Frankenstein, despite his persistent contempt for everything he has done, refuses to see his mistakes from my precepts, how dangerous the acquisition of knowledge is, and how happiness... middle of paper... provides us with the capacity for disaster. Shelley demonstrates this tendency in Frankenstein, through the consequences of a scientist's ambitious quest to create life, and raises the ever-prevalent concerns about progress in science. However, it does so in a way that does not condemn the pursuit of knowledge or progress in science, but rather warns us to be very careful when exploring new and pristine territories of nature. It is important that this warning be heeded, given the advancement of such things as cloning, genetic engineering, and countless other developments today that bring potential problems never imagined by those. of Shelley's generation Before we find ourselves mired in the horrors generated by the lack of scientific foresight, we must ask ourselves, as Walton does: "What can stop the determined heart and resolute will of man?", 23).