Dr. Smith’s actions are very distinct from Victor’s actions and Dr. Smiths are much more ethical. Dr. Smith has saved a life and brought him back to health, while Victor created a life and has abandoned it. Also, Dr. Smith uses donated body parts to bring John Doe back to life unlike Frankenstein, who uses body parts that he dug up in graveyards. From a religious stand point, Frankenstein’s actions were not morally correct, because only God can create life.
The biggest difference in the actions between Dr. Smith and Victor is the fact that Dr. Smith saves a life instead of creating one. The reason why Dr. Smith uses all the transplants on John Doe is because protocol requires him to take heroic measures in order to save a life, which is what he does. Meanwhile, the reason why Frankenstein creates the monster is because as Victor states it, “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (51). Victor wanted to know the secret behind life but once he thought he found out it, he didn’t take responsibility for it and rejected his creation which is not morally correct.
Dr. Smith uses the body parts of deceased people who volunteered to have their limbs and organs donated for the use of transplants, which is ethical because it is what is supposed to be done. Frankenstein digs up graves and steals the body parts of dead humans and animals who, when alive had no intention of their body being used to create some sort of creature. The use of random body parts makes the creature feel as if he is an abortion “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on”. If Victor would have used donated body parts to create the creature, which would have been ethical. But he didn’t, causing the process of creating the creature unethical itself. Also, when Frankenstein creates the monster he is going...