Read the following passage from mary shelley's frankenstein
after days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue,
succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life;
nay, more, i became myself capable of bestowing
animation upon lifeless matter.
the astonishment which i had at first experienced on this
discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture.
which common notion from the historical context surrounding frankenstein
does this excerpt most clearly show?
a. some doctors were unscrupulous, selling false medicinal
remedies and experimenting at the risk of their patients.
b. enlightenment thinking promoted learning and advanced
education for the betterment of human life.
c. scientists were willing to interfere with the natural order that was
ordained by god, becoming god-like in their explorations. jom
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d. the romantics de-emphasized the influence of reason, and
instead emphasized human emotion.