In Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, there are many occasions of knowledge and power. To me I would have to say that knowledge does equal power but it can also bring great problems as well as emotions. As Victor stats :how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow” (30). We all might have different sights on this quote, for me it show that knowledge yes can be dangerous and powerful. One reason is that victor had the knowledge and the power to create the creature that he did, and in his eyes he opened his society up for the ultimate danger. Frankenstein stats “I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph: clapping my hands, I exclaimed, 'I, too, can create desolation; my enemy is not impregnable; this death will carry despair to him , and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him'” ( 97). This quote we can see that yes the knowledge can equal power and emotions. This also shows a good example of how knowledge can be turned into power in just a split minute, just because for him to kill that little boy, he would have to have some great deal of power.
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ReplyDeleteI think that knowledge is power and power can facilitate knowledge. In many times like in the monsters case; knowledge is used to gain power. But at the end, knowledge and power complement each other. Another example of how knowledge can affect power is when the monster learned all the things Felix’s father was teaching the Arabian girl, “through this work I obtained a cursory knowledge of history, and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, governments and religions of the different nations of the earth.” (Shelley 80). And of course because of all of this classes, the monster was able to develop and practice the main thing he needed to confront its creator and ask him for a female of his kind; speech.
ReplyDeleteHowever, in Victor’s case, knowledge of science made him loose the power and control of his life and all the horrid events he had coming.