Too Much Knowledge In Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

Ever since man stepped foot on Earth, the search for knowledge has been neverending. Within the past few centuries, man reached new heights never before dreamed of when it came to information and inventions. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein embodies this quest for intellect. Victor Frankenstein, the main character, sets off on a journey to acquire as much education as possible, but by doing so ends up creating a shockwave of various effects. Thus, Frankenstein displays how the obsessive pursuit of and acquirement of knowledge leads to extraordinary accomplishments, such as new technology and inventions. However, at the same time, this impulse spurs nefarious actions and consequences.

What is knowledge?Knowledge is tye gaining of thought,memories,ideas.Knowledge can bring many good qualities ,which are somewhat beneficial ,but what happens when we lust for Knowledge.That is when it becomes a problem because you might create or make sonething you might regret,it can destroy any ethnic or moral value,and it make you look like a crazy person.These qualities lead you and/or other people to death.

“Learn from me…how dangerous is 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, 39).

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, raises important questions as to how the theme of knowledge helps to explain the story. The main focus of Frankenstein is the power of knowledge and how dangerous it can be. This power is portrayed in the main characters of the novel: Victor Frankenstein and the monster. The theme of knowledge helps to answer the question as to why Victor decides to tell Walton his secret. Both of these characters reveal a passion of discovery and intellect, which Victor has made his past and Walton only his future. Their obsessions of knowledge are mirrored in one another through the journeys they take until their paths cross. Finally, the question of the concluding effect of the conversation between Walton and the creature

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

Moving far ahead into the field of science, Victor Frankenstein creates and brings to life a monstrous, humanlike creature he has assembled from old body parts. One night, horrified by his horrendous creation, he abandons and deserts the monster. As the monster realizes the dangerous reality of its ugly self, and as he is rejected by humanity, it demands of Victor a female companion equally horrendous. When Victor refuses, the monster vows to make his life miserable in every way possible. In Mary Shelley’s classic, Frankenstein, Victor must find a way to bring everything to a close and prevent further damage done by his creation. In Frankenstein, ship captain Robert Walton writes several letters to his sister, Margaret, informing her of his

Knowledge can be dangerous and destructive if you use use it like Dr. Frankenstein did when making his monster. When he has seen the lightning strike the tree he was intrigued that electricity was what made humans move. Most people today use knowledge to hurt people with rumors. In Frankenstein, Victor explores the world of science defying his father’s wishes. Victor wanted to study Chemistry even with his lack of science. He had a bit of an addiction which made him dig up bodies and create the creature. Today most people suffer from a large amount of knowledge. It is a severe problem in modern society and people can’t always know and remember everything. Correlation isn’t causation, but that doesn’t mean correlation evidence can be used to constrain hypotheses.

This is my essay about the acquirement of knowledge that Victor Frankenstein stated in the book Frankenstein. In the book it stated that knowledge can be dangerous and destructive to its possessor. Too me I see it as a deep thought process too where you like how you came up with creating something but in the end your creation could bring disaster and bad luck to yourself. It just depends on what you create and what your creation is for. A good example of this would be Tony Stark in the Avengers. Tony created a robot by using a gem too make the world a better place. But what actually happens is that the robot actually wants to destroy the Earth because he thinks that the earth is wasting away and it needs to reboot or start over. Just like in Frankenstein, Victor wanted to recreate life but what he does is create a creature that brings terror to his family and to the town that he lives in.

What would one expect from a well-to-do scientist who has used the knowledge that only Gods should know? This character has been portrayed in Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein". A Character analyst of the protagonist Victor Frankenstein reveals that through his experimentation with the knowledge left for gods he has fallen. Victor Frankenstein was a compassionate person with the intellectual knowledge to succeed in life. Yet this knowledge would be victory downfall .Victor

Based on Mary Shelley’s, the author of Frankenstein, use of knowledge throughout her writing, the reader can come to a conclusion that she is pointing out knowledge and the idea of learning as a motif. The reader can also assume that Shelley is showing us that knowledge is everywhere and is very important; not only throughout this book but throughout life as well.

In the bible, God warns people that the quest to obtain knowledge can create more grief than happiness (Genesis 11:4). Unfortunately, many people fail to realize the consequences behind their actions because they are blinded by the prize. Similar to God, Mary Shelley greatly reveals the dangerous outcomes of knowledge in her novel, Frankenstein. She believes that the quest to obtain knowledge can often lead to self-destruction, which she demonstrates in three of her characters: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the monster. Whether it is the desire to reach the North Pole or the ability to break the cycle of life, each of these characters became architects of their own downfall.

As shown in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses the different elements of gothic literature to show that there are limits to what mankind is meant to know. The element of man as his own worst is often used to show what happens when Frankenstein gains more knowledge than he is suppose to have. Violence and horror are each results to Frankenstein's over ambition like the death of many of his loved ones. This then leads to the mystery and supernatural elements of gothic literature that appear throughout the book. At last, the sublime nature displayed conveys the mood and feelings of each character.

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.

In most cases, real knowledge can lead to real wisdom. Real knowledge is worth a lot and can lead to success in life, but none of it matters unless one is wise with the wisdom one obtains. This is clearly seen in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster gains knowledge over the time of his brain is growing and developing. As the monster obtains knew knowledge, it is able to understand what it is being put in front of it; but the monster is not wise enough to use this knowledge efficiently. An example of this is when he begins to understand common human nature, more specifically when he ls repeatedly attacked or yelled at by people for his appearance.

By repetitively emphasizing the disgust and hatred Victor has for his creation, Shelley illuminates the power of knowledge, and the dangers that can occur when one gets carried away in the pursuit of knowledge. Shelley does this by magnifying the “hideous” and “filthy” creation that Victor created, while showing downfall of Victor, the creator. By saying the phrase “the filthy demon to whom I had given life”, Shelley articulates the intense guilt and ownership Victor takes in personally creating this “demon”. Thus, Shelley argues that a creator must take responsibility for his creation, for whom he gave “life”, no matter the consequences that may occur. And so, by emphasizing these themes through Victor’s horrifying series of events, Shelley