"Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate" (p. 24) Dangerous knowledge and man better know his place or chaos will happen is the main theme of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ... I think that Mary Shelley wrote this book in a time when scientific pursuits were rocking mans traditional place in the world ie: "the industrialization of Europe, and especially of England, along with consequent dramatic changes in social stability" (p.xi) because of this, the Idea of dangerous knowledge and nature as power over Victor Frankenstein, along with the responsibili...

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Throughout Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, readers can understand the role that alienation and rejection plays within society. ... The main character, Victor Frankenstein, grew up in a very stable and privileged family. ... My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge" (Shelley, 29). ... Once commenced, it would quickly be achieved, and I might be restored to my family in peace and happiness" (Shelley,156). ... Within Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein," the pain of alienation a...

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The pursuit of knowledge leads to despair and corruption in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. ... Mary Shelley writes Victors story from Victor's point of view and of him telling another man, Walton, about his ghastly tale. ... Upon arriving in Geneva, he finds out that a nice girl, Justine Moritz, who was living with the Frankenstein's had been accused of the killing. ... Victor Frankenstein did not consider any negative consequences of his scientific search. ...

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Lost In 1817, Mary Shelley set out to write a ghost story that would "curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart." ... The finished product Frankenstein was one that frightened Shelley herself. ... Victor Frankenstein, a seeker of distinction, is synonymous with his misuse of science that creates a creature for which he provides no direction. ... Mary Shelley allows all characters to express their side of the story, thus effectively forcing the reader to take a position, and side with either Victor or the wretch. ... Of the events that unfolded in Shelly's masterpiece...

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