Frankenstein Knowledge Quotes

I strongly believe that the creature made by Victor Frankenstein is indeed very human. I say this because he shows many human traits. Some of these traits are that he can feel complex emotion's and he has a higher intellect than most animals such as humans. In this essay I will also discuss multiply reasons some might use as evidence to support the claim that he is not human and why they are not sufficient to make the conclusion that the creature made by Frankenstein is not human.

The idea of pursuing knowledge clouded Victor’s mind and when his creature is born he is shocked to discover that what he has created is far off his own expectations. Not only did the monster destroy his expectations of developing a creature that went beyond human knowledge, but it also affected his life, dignity, and fears. Victor himself admits to his own mistake when he says, “The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature...but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless honor and disgust filled my heart ” (36). Victor Frankenstein realizes what his obsession with pursuing an extensive amount of knowledge has brought him. His destiny to achieve the impossible with no regard for anyone or anything but himself shows that he is blinded by knowledge when creating the monster and is incapable to foresee the outcome of his creation. Victor’s goal was meant to improve and help humanity, but instead it leads to

Throughout Shelley’s work, the creature struggles to conform to society, alone from his first moments - abandoned by his creator - he is given no proper upbringing, and abhorred by society. He grows up in hiding and fear, his only interactions with others ending in violence. Hence, seems only natural that his desperate need to conform would lead to violence. The need to “belong” is an essential “human” desire, however this sense of belonging his completely dependent on one’s upbringing.

Throughout the first couple chapters of Shelley’s novel, Victor Frankenstein describes his upbringing, including a description of his parents’ relationship, how Elizabeth, the woman he would later marry, came into his life, and even the start of his friendship with Henry Clerval, the man he would later share his experiments with. In chapter two, on page 36, Victor explains that “no human could have passed a happier childhood than myself,” however, his temper and behavior was sometimes violent and negative. Victor, even as a young child, had taken on a great passion for learning things that required a vast knowledge in the subjects of heaven and earth. This growing passion for acquiring knowledge far beyond most people’s comprehension level, later turned into a burning desire to create life itself. This desire would be

Throughout the entire of the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley shows that Frankenstein’s demise is a direct result of his own decisions. Mary displays this through three vivid actions that Victor did; the creation of the creature, the death of his Brother and trial of Justine, and the ignorance Victor had that led to the murder of Victor’s wife, Elizabeth. Victor was a very smart student with an immense drive to accomplish whatever he told himself he was going to accomplish. With Victor’s early studying in college, Victor describes his situation when studying “Victor’s cheeks had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. “ (Shelley 40), Showing Victor relied so heavily on studying that he was hurting his body

In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, we discover that the search for now knowledge has a good and a bad side. Suffering is something we all go through at some point. We try to avoid it but our search for knowledge will always lead to suffering. In Frankenstein Victor had set out on a search for knowledge, he was relentless. His search consumed all his time, destroyed relationships, and lead to the death of not only himself but his friends and family. All of those negative effects originated from the monster Victor had created on his search for knowledge. Although Victor may have achieved his end goal, at what cost did this come to? Victor’s search

"Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother" (tears came into his eyes as he spoke); "but is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society." (78)

The power of knowledge has also affected Victor in a negative way. Ever since Victor was a child, he had always been interested in science. As he got older, he got even more interested in specific topics within natural philosophy, particularly the human body. After his talk with his professor, he believed he could create an animate object from an inanimate object, in which this case the object turned into a monster. “My labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete” (57). Victor has put a lot of effort into learning the anatomy of a human body and pursues the creation of one, yet he doesn’t realize how small the margin of error would be. Later on in the book, the monster demands Victor to create a

Victor uses his knowledge not for the benefit of society, but for his own purpose of experimentation which ends up turning out the opposite way that he imagines. Knowing his own vanity, Victor says "lean from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow" (Shelley 38). After creating the monster and all the hardships Victor had to go through, he realizes that a person should be happy with the world around him/her and not try to change it. He admits that trying to become a man greater than who he could be drove him mad and his knowledge went in tow with it. From

Throughout Frankenstein it is evident that Victor and Robert express their thirst for knowledge, which often leads to destruction. Through analyzing Frankenstein it is possible to find many examples that illustrate the fact that wanting to have more knowledge can be extremely dangerous. Firstly, as Victor is creating life he is able to create a humanoid monster, unfortunately he is appalled by his creation and becomes very ill. Afterwards, when Victor is completing the female companion for his original creation, Victor realizes that this will only create more destruction. Finally, as Walton is on a journey to the North Pole he encounters difficulties that nearly kill him and his crew. This shows that Victor and Walton are repeatedly

This need of power led Victor to create what he believed would be a beautiful human being. But he failed to see that combining the most beautiful human features does not necessarily create a beautiful human being. He was inspired by scientists who ...acquired new and almost limitless powers... (Shelley, Frankenstein, P. 47). Victor sought this unlimited power to the extent of taking the role of God. He not only penetrated nature, but also he assumed power of reproduction in a maniacal desire to harness these modes of reproduction in order to become acknowledged, respected, and obeyed as a father. While bringing his creation into the world he was himself alienated from society, and isolated himself from the community. Isolation and parental neglect cause viciousness within man. Because of his upbringing, Victor had no sense of empathy, and therefore could not realize the potential harm he was creating towards himself and his creation. The sole purpose of his project was an attempt to gain power, but instead of power Victor realized that a morally irresponsible scientific development could release a monster that can destroy human civilization.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Much like humans, the creature learned to have desire for things, show emotion and thrive for knowledge. The creature wanted to understand everything, while he also was demanding a mate from his master. Victor knew his work could cause problems the day he came alive, but was not sure how the science would effet himself and others. The knowledge that the creature gained from the humans he observed might be the reason for the ending of “Frankenstein” ,as well as, the knowledge Victor has of science, therefore, the question is whether the acquirement of any knowledge is dangerous or not to all of us.

Knowledge is power. Victor takes this idea to an all new level. With this creation of new life, Victor realizes the power that he has with this knowledge. He also understands the danger of having so much power. This shows the he doesn't care what has to be done in order to gain this knowledge. He sets an example about just how dangerous and destructive the thirst of knowledge can

In Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, there are many central themes that emerge from this short gothic novel, but I’d like to focus on the main theme that caught my attention, which is the dangers of knowledge. Frankenstein was born from the thirst of knowledge that overcame Victor. For Victor, this surge for knowledge was more significant to him than anything else, as he later proves this by taking no importance to his own health. At an early age, he became fascinated by electricity and “galvanism” which lead him to pursue the study of science and its many possible applications. His obsession with knowledge caused him to go beyond human limits and create a monster from gathered dead body parts and ultimately lead to his own death. Although the yearning for knowledge is advocated by professionals, parents, teachers and leaders. Often times depending on the individual too much knowledge can lead to deadly consequences or one’s own fate, and be a danger not only to themselves but to those around them as well.

Throughout Frankenstein, one can clearly see the effects of failing to foresee the natural consequences of implementing the technology to create life through the monster’s actions. In fact, the vast majority of the misery in the novel, if not all of it, could have been avoided if Victor would have taken a few logical precautionary actions before he created the monster. A critic may say that Victor had no way of knowing that the monster would kill nearly all of his family. However, in actuality Victor should have been able to realize the grave dangers and taken the logical precautions. Instead of choosing to look down upon the monster and fleeing it because of its frightful appearance, Victor should have at the very least made the assumption that it could act and think as a human, especially given that it was built out of human organs. As Frankenstein says himself: “My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge.”(Shelly 36). That is, if he would have given any thought to what would happen after he created life, it could have been a successful scientific breakthrough, not a tragedy. He could have built a cage, attempted to teach it, or even killed it right after it woke up (of course, there may be a few moral issues associated with this method). Instead, Frankenstein blames his own fault of ignorance on his father. The problems with technology presented in