Frankenstein Home Going Quotes

From the moment we wake up in the morning till we go back to sleep, decision-making is an indispensable part of our life. Some choices may seem insignificant, like what to wear or what to eat for breakfast, while others may have significant impacts on our lives and even others, like choosing a life partner, a place to live, or the way we interact with others. Although choices can be empowering, allowing us to take control of our lives and shape our future, however, if the wrong choice was made, it could have negative consequences. Sometimes people would choose to obey others and avoid making choices themselves when they are scared and cowardly. However, the decision of not making a choice is a choice itself, indeed, it could even be the worst

In Homegoing, most characters chose to obey the surrounding society and reject to make a decision that isn’t based on their considerations. Quey, for example, Effia and James’ son, chooses to obey his father and the society to build up the slave trade. Throughout Quey’s life, obeying another has occurred many times. For instance, when James saw some close interactions between Quey and Cudjo, Quey didn’t go against his father and lets James send him to England “just before Quey’s fourteenth birthday, while Effia cried and fought and fought some more, going so far, once, as to strike James across the face…” (Yaa 61) Later on, when Quey returned to Africa, he obeys the society and marries the daughter of the Asante king to build up the system of slavery. In which, Quey making this decision, to obey society, not only praises the act of slavery to a higher place and makes it more accustomed but also causes more innocent people and villages to be at risk. Frankenstein, as well, illustrates many decisions that had not been done wisely and caused the tragedy of the story with multiple innocents death. The most significant unwise choice Victor makes is to create life through his experimentation with science. Although this choice may have been made with good intentions, Victor fails to consider the potential consequences of his actions. Instead of taking responsibility for his creation, he abandons it, leading to a series of horrific events that ultimately causes the devastating result of the monster killing innocent people in society. If Victor has thought carefully before deciding to challenge science and create the monster, all the tragedy will not