Knowledge In Frankenstein

Throughout the course of history, humanity has done monumental task, from erecting the pyramids to manipulating cells in the human body. Knowledge has been the key part to mankind’s success. However, due to the knowledge humanity has obtained, destruction and suffering has become a piece of history. Knowledge is both gift and a curse for society. People has used it for exceptional things, however, some has been corrupted by the power it brings. The knowledge that was imparted to humanity, has become more powerful that any weapons, human has created. The power knowledge has is immeasurable, due to the potential of its growth. With all the goodness and evil it has brought to the world, mankind’s thirst for knowledge is still unquenched, good
The quest for knowledge for Frankenstein comes in the field of science. Science is already in Frankenstein’s mind growing up. After delving more, he became passionate about the potential of science. Frankenstein’s search for knowledge gives him a purpose in life. His fondness with the natural sciences becomes his calling, and he became obsessed with it. Victor Frankenstein is hell-bent in creating a human being, he became disconnected to humanity. His morality slips away from him every minute that pass. The passion has become an obsession, that is eating him inside out. “A new species would bless me as their creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve their” (Shelley 47). Victor Frankenstein’s true motive come to clear, as the quote suggests. Frankenstein, in his study of the creation of God, want to become God. He wants the being that he creates to treat him same as humans treat God. To owe their being to him. Frankenstein becomes corrupted by knowledge he possesses. As he becomes successful in his experiment, Frankenstein abandons his creation. When bodies are piling left and right, Victor Frankenstein decides to take action, as he says, “When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base” (Shelley 92). Frankenstein’s act of revenge is the way he takes responsibility for his action. Frankenstein knows as he seeks the monster, is the same as seeking his own death, evident to that, are the bodies of his love ones. In the end, same as Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein in his seeking of forbidden knowledge, gains wisdom. The responsibility for his own actions.