Today, the first cloned human embryos have been announced. Who is to say that only "good" will come from our newfound abilities to clone people and create life? Who says that our "creatures" will be normal and not hideously deformed, not only physically, but psychologically, knowing they have no mother or father, but only a creator? "Learn from me . . . how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow," so says Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Here, she makes reference to man playing God and taking the power to create life into his own hands. It is remarkably similar to today's situation.
             Mary Shelley develops the creature's psychological state very well, as well as other aspects of its life. It has no name, being referred to as "it," "the creature," "demon" and occasionally even "devil." It's creator gives it no name, feeling that it is too grotesque and horrible to be worthy of such a simplicity. "Normal" human beings scorn the creature. It is tall, his skin is yellow, lips are black and it is much larger in general than a common man. What is different frightens people who are used to routine and familiarity. His life could be synonymous with the lives of present day clones. They will be looked upon as different from non-cloned children, have no TRUE parents to look to and unlike the creature, will not have the refuge of secrecy, because of inevitable media attention.
             Victor Frankenstein himself goes through remarkable change. At the beginning of his story, he is curious and fame seeking and surrounded by family and friends. He becomes conceited with his discovery saying "What had been the desire of the wisest men since the creation of man was now within my grasp." Then after cr
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