Frankenstein: Is Knowledge Always Evil?

The desire of extensive knowledge is first seen through Victor Frankenstein. At the beginning of the novel, a young boy named Victor grows up in Geneva “deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge” (20).

The monster was abandoned by Frankenstein. Eventually, he learns that he was a science experiment when he learns to read and finds Frankenstein’s journal. Slowly stripped from all that he wanted, he began to become vengeful, and ultimately evil. Many humans have run into this situation before, but the monster had nothing to hold onto except watching a family he would never be able to be a part of. When he was denied by the family he lost everything. The monster was thrown into an abyss with nothing to grab onto. When everything is taken from him, he is left with just a hatred for Frankenstein. Frankenstein created the monster just to leave him and the monster will never forgive him for this. He was born innocent and placed in a life of

Some say that knowledge can be a blessing and a curse. Others say that intelligence can only be a curse. People argue that knowledge can help mankind, while it can also can make dangerous monsters that can harm others. However, in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor’s intelligence is mostly seen only as a curse because it unleashes a murderer, results in his sickness, and makes him want the knowledge to be kept a secret.

Frankenstein is a book written by Mary Shelley in 1818, that is revolved around a under privileged scientist named Victor Frankenstein who manages to create a unnatural human-like being. The story was written when Shelley was in her late teen age years, and was published when she was just twenty years old. Frankenstein is filled with several different elements of the Gothic and Romantic Movement of British literature, and is considered to be one of the earliest forms of science fiction. Frankenstein is a very complicated and complex story that challenges different ethics and morals on the apparent theme of dangerous knowledge. With the mysterious experiment that Dr. Victor Frankenstein conducted, Shelly causes her reader to ultimately ask

Although humans have the tendency to set idealistic goals to better future generations, often the results can prove disastrous, even deadly. The tale of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, focuses on the outcome of one man 's idealistic motives and desires of dabbling with nature, which result in the creation of horrific creature. Victor Frankenstein was not doomed to failure from his initial desire to overstep the natural bounds of human knowledge. Rather, it was his poor parenting of his progeny that lead to his creation 's thirst for the vindication of his unjust life. In his idealism, Victor is blinded, and so the creation accuses him for delivering him into a world where he could not ever be entirely received by the people who inhabit it. Not only failing to foresee his faulty idealism, nearing the end of the tale, he embarks upon a final journey, consciously choosing to pursue his creation in vengeance, while admitting he himself that it may result in his own doom. The creation of an unloved being and the quest for the elixir of life holds Victor Frankenstein more accountable for his own death than the creation himself.

Little did scientist, Victor Frankenstein know when he took his experiment much too far, spending endless nights, disregarding his family and friends in the quest for perfecting his human like life creation. Frankenstein truly believed that creating life would make him a more powerful and respectable man. He thought that his human like creation would validate him as a person. When this did not happen, Frankenstein felt that he had created a mistake. (232-233) "

Within the book, Dr. Victor Frankenstein expresses the way in which knowledge has blessed him in the beginning of the story but in turn ends up resulting in his downfall.

Later on, the monster looks back on how he has changed and how much he has learned. “Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true; but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water, or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade” (133). In this quote, the monster explains that as he gained more knowledge, it made him feel even worst and feel more like an outcast. After his loss of innocence through the power of knowledge, he couldn’t look at himself the same way as before.

Victor Frankenstein’s childhood influenced his ultimate destruction. From a young age, Victor had “an eager desire to learn” (Shelley 33). His parent’s supplied him with several resources to better his education path such as easy access to books and eventually a chance to attend a university. He enjoyed learning and was able to increase his knowledge due to the assistance of his parents, but his focus was too narrow. He chose “not to learn all things indiscriminately” (Shelley 33). Rather he focused on “the physical secrets

The world depicts knowledge as this key to success which when possessed, could lead to everlasting probabilities. But what is often hidden is the fact that immense knowledge in the wrong hands could be handled in numerous horrendous ways which can lead forth negative impacts. As demonstrated in the classic novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The monster is created as this highly inteligent yet hideous monster. Due to this, his creator, Victor Frankenstein, degradingly mistreats the momster with cruel remarks and hate on behalf of Victor Frankenstein. The Monster in response revolts and in the end uses his powerful use of knowledge to torment and ruin Victor Frankenstein's life forever.

In the novel, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein shows the cruel karma that joins in the achievement of attaining knowledge. With countless examples to support this statement, the opinion of this reader holds strong with the opinion of Mary Shelly, that the power of knowledge, though incredibly tempting to grasp hold of tightly, can be a dangerous achievement that can lead to more destruction than it can recover.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a novel filled with monstrosity, secrets, lies, and heartbreaks. But, the dangers of self believed knowledge is something that Mary Shelley displays in the novel Frankenstein. In his essay Love Your Monster by Bruno Latour discusses technology, theology, and dominance. Bruno Latour states “The link between technology and theology hinges on the notion of mastery.” (para.39)

The most frightening horror story can only be called such if it is believable. Nothing is so unnerving as lying awake at night with very real fears. No monster can harm you, unless the monster was genetically engineered by a mad scientist. The theme of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - scientific investigation without consideration of morality and responsibility - is a very relevant topic in today's world. This theme, along with the less obvious themes of revenge, prejudice against deviation from the norm, and fate all make Frankenstein one of the most unique and terrifying horror novels ever.

Science is the knowledge gained by a systematic study, knowledge which then becomes facts or principles. In the systematic study; the first step is observation, the second step hypothesis, the third step experimentation to test the hypothesis, and lastly the conclusion whether or not the hypothesis holds true. These steps have been ingrained into every student of science, as the basic pathway to scientific discovery. This pathway holds not decision as to good or evil intention of the experiment. Though, there are always repercussions of scientific experiments. They range from the most simplistic realizations of the difference between acid and water to the principle that Earth is not the center of

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