Abstract: As one of human enhanced technologies, there are two distinctly opposing views on prosthetic technology, that is, enhancing intervention or therapeutic medical intervention, and these two views also refer to two different connotations of cyborg image. A probe into this issue, which may involve the ethical consideration of human enhanced technology, could help us understand what it means to human beings. In her latest novel, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson provides us with a way to think about the relationship between the two. By analyzing the origin of cyborg, we can see not only its technological background (cybernetic technology) and social background (war), but also its decisive impact on the representation of cyborg images in contemporary popular culture. In the rhetorical metaphor of prosthetics, protheses become fashionable equipment while damaged bodies fade into the background. Only by emphasizing the materiality of protheses can the prosthesis wearers restore the visibility of their embodied bodies. These wearers do not usesomatechnologies, but live in them instead., andtheir bodies coevolve with their protheses. With this ethical consciousness, it might be possible for our bodies to avoid the fate of fading away in human enhanced technology.

Key words: Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story, prosthesis, human enhancement, cyborg