Mary Shelley's Warning

Mary Shelley's perceptions of science and the dangerous power it potentially holds are intuitive. Modern day science deals daily with the exact issues of which Shelley was apparently keenly aware. She introduces ethics to the study of science, even gives science a conscious. As the monster acts on Frankenstein's conscious, some would say that Mary Shelley writes literature to act as science's conscious. It was as if she acknowledged that the future of science, if uncontrolled, could be disastrous. The book serves to warn readers, both past and current, of our own powers. It was almost as if Mary Shelley in 1818 could see nearly 200 years into the future, recognizing that our scientific discoveries of nuclear weapons and cloning could eventually be our demise.
Mary Shelley is placing a warning in her book, that when people experiment with things they shouldn't, and don't control their experiments, it could be disastorous. People experimented with the nuclear bomb, and it ended up killing hundreds of thousands, because no one knew how to control it. When Victor Frankenstein experiments and makes the monster, it led to the death of the ones he loves and himself.