Frankenstein is a work of gothic science fiction by Mary Shelley. The protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, befriends Robert Walton while moribund, resulting in a burgeoning amity between them, and a promise to satiate Walton’s curiosity by telling him of the dangers of cognition, a recurring theme in the novel, by narrating his life hitherto, when they found him at sea. Victor talks of his youth and family/friends, and after the death of his mother, was sent to study at the University of Ingolstadt
turtles. A visit to the aquarium is a mixture of entertainment and education, and seems much less morally dubious than going to a zoo to gorillas, and probably much better than playing point-and-shoot video games. True, recent publicity about the US theme park chain SeaWorld and the treatment of orcas make it clear that some aquariums step over the line when it comes to the humane treatment of aquatic animals. While the argument has been won for orcas, the moral situation for the other marine animals