Knowledge In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Frankenstein continues to use and implement his knowledge, which seems to go against nature and is called ‘dangerous’. This knowledge, when used to create his hideous monster, deeply affects his mental and physical state of mind. Shelley showcases this in chapter four of Frankenstein. In the novel, Frankenstein acquires knowledge, then causes detrimental harm to his mental and physical health. Dr. Frankenstein first had to acquire the required knowledge. In the beginning of the book we learn he reads books and goes to college. He first gets the idea to recreate life at school, then furthers the idea after with what his teachers have taught him. The mad doctor did, “posses the capacity of bestowing animation,”
His “cheek had grown pale with study,” and he became delusional. He lost parts of his humanity and was blind to the horrors of his creation. He began to hold himself as a god, since, “no father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely,” and began to push more and more, “[pursuing] mother nature into her hiding-places.” HE was living a delusional, unhealthy life for months. Whenever he did doubt himself, the work consumed him all over again. He was operating under the thought that a, “new species would bless [him] as its creator and source.” He was elevating himself when in reality e was the lowest of the low, but his mental image of himself was warped by hours of intensive work. His mental image wasn’t the only part of him that was warped, he was hurting himself physically as
He was barely eating and, “had become emaciated with confinement,” meaning he was abnormally weak because of a lack of food. He shackled himself to his work in the hope that, “the next day or the hour might realize,” his work coming to an end. He fervently worked all through the night while a, “resistless and almost frantic impulse urged [him] forward. [He] seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.” Basically, the doctor was causing serious physical harm to himself, by creating something that would continue to harm him and humanity. So, to reiterate, the Doctor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, acquired forbidden knowledge, then forsake his physical and mental health to use that knowledge. He gained the ability and power to, “renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption,” but didn’t consider the consequences. He deluded himself into believing he was bringing something amazing to the world, but created a hideous monster. Then, as he created the monster, he slowly began to decay, but was so involved in the task at hand, he ignored