The thirst for knowledge can produce destructive effects on humans and objects that are almost human. In Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein constantly seeks more knowledge than he already has. Victors pursuit fosters his scientific success of a human creation, yet at the same time his success leads to his own destruction. Victors creation experiences the same desire for knowledge. Through her first literary work, Mary Shelley focuses on mans desire for knowledge and the possible negative consequences that may occur when this quest becomes an obsession. Victor Frankenstein expresses an intense interest in gaining knowledge from the beginning of his life. One subject that Victor Frankenstein becomes interested in at a young age is natural philosophy. When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon. In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa.'(38) Even though his father warns him to stay away from those kinds of books, Victor Frankenstein pursues his thirst for more knowledge about natural philosophy. When he returns home, the works of Agrippa wet his appetite for knowledge on philosophy.
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