Did He Really Need To Know

In the story Frankstein, Victor Frankstein’s thirst for knowledge and his ambition’s didn’t give him all the glory he was looking for: ”You seek knowledge and wisdom, as I once did, and I ardently hope that the ratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been” (Shelly 17). As a young man he was always curses and he went off to learn all he could. He obtained a passion for Science, which in the end made him crazy. He wanted to make a contribution to science that no one else had attempted shown in this quote, “I was surprise that among so many men of genius, who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone would be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret”(30). He strives had to achieve his goal but in the end he was not happy with his accomplishment: “He meant to pleas, and he tormented. I felt if he had placed carefully, one by one, the instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to slow death” (42). Victor was so unhappy with his creation that he could not gracefully that praise for any of his accomplishments.
Even through society stress knowledge and education, as individuals we have to maintain the depth and influence of the knowledge we obtain. In Frankstein, Victor’s knowledge became his total focus and his undoing.