Knowledge In Frankenstein
Effects of acquirement of knowledge being dangerous Throughout history, knowledge has been shown as a fantastic thing, but the novel Frankenstein shows that knowledge is not always a virtuous moral. Across the story every main character shows what knowledge has done to them through their actions and their words. With this in mind, there are also magnificent things knowledge has created in history, which will be shown and supported with excerpts from academic articles. First, evidence of what knowledge has done for us. From Steaming The Debate Advances in Stem Research by Diane Katz and Bruce Walker, “They were able to grow brain and heart tissue from lab-created stem cells.” This statement shows that we can create body parts for people
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Frankenstein’s monster feels alone and lost, and searches for meaning through knowledge. “But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions. I read it, as I had read the other volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a true history. It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.” Unfortunately, he cannot fully comprehend the knowledge he acquires, and it ends up being more harmful than helpful to him. Walton is on his own journey for knowledge into the frozen abyss. With disinclination of stopping his journey and says “One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought; for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.”It is in this moment that Walton can comprehend that death is the price to pay for knowledge and that it is too late to save himself
Frankenstein’s monster feels alone and lost, and searches for meaning through knowledge. “But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions. I read it, as I had read the other volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a true history. It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.” Unfortunately, he cannot fully comprehend the knowledge he acquires, and it ends up being more harmful than helpful to him. Walton is on his own journey for knowledge into the frozen abyss. With disinclination of stopping his journey and says “One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought; for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.”It is in this moment that Walton can comprehend that death is the price to pay for knowledge and that it is too late to save himself