Frankenstein the Cyborg

According to Haraway, cyborgs are any combination of animals, human beings, and technology: they are borderline creatures. Cyborgs blur the line between what is really human, animal, and/or technology. Frankenstein truly breaks the essence of the orgin of human beings as he is created from the dead and has no kin. It is this kin that relates all other human beings, however at the same time, Frankenstein exhibits human qualities as he begins to show emotion and can talk. Frankenstein expresses his yearning for a mate and shows despair when he loses his blind friend. Are this not qualities that make us all human: love, affection, yearning to be accepted? It is the fact that Frankenstein shows these emotions, which confuses us as to what he really is, as he was created by a scientist yet he can talk, walk, and show emotion. Cyborgs are seen as being marginal and Frankenstein is just that, as he is half human and half technology. He is real yet his origin makes him artificial as he ought not to exist. In true reality we can not make a human being from the dead which makes him unhuman and alien-like. Frankenstein is viewed by those who can see him as a monster, yet the blind man becomes his friend. The blind man has no sense that Frankenstein is alien-like based on the way he knows him. It is almost as if we view someone as human based more on the fact that they look like everyone else rather than if they act like everyone else. Frankenstein was treated as an outcast because of the way he looked. He was not a normal human thus he was considered not human. The fact that there are cyborgs, though, shows potential for society based on Haraway's belief that it is cyborgs who allow us to understand the world in terms of there being no single human essence. Without this essence we are all cyborgs, and there is no longer the distinction of the so called "others."