Frankenstein Pursuit Of Knowledge

This time was not without its advances and changes in morals and ethics of science though. The changing times and sciences as well as the pursuit of knowledge and the unknown changed many churches minds on the matter and people began to accept acts such as anatomy of the human body and were more open for exploration on how it works, and made way for many new experiments to be done. These changes prompted a more lax look at the experiments and theories of the scientists and while many acts were looked on with skepticism and fear, the scientists decidedly went on with them anyways in the pursuit of knowledge. Montillo notes in the book The Lady and Her Monsters about the brother of Galvani named Giovanni Aldini and how he continued his brother’s …show more content…
shows how science was looked on with a certain precaution that it could get out of hand, but also show that it could meet some great heights. In the novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein used this electricity idea to bring his creature to life and from the moment this happened, he failed to follow any guidelines and laws set in place for the conducting of experiments. People feared in the creation and losing control of the monsters created by man, and that is exactly what Frankenstein played on and showed when the creature escaped and proceeded to wreak havoc on Victor and his family “Frankenstein has come to represent scientists creating monsters who reel out of control” (Conrad …show more content…
The Frankenstein story in itself dealt with so many different types of science that occurred in this time ranging from advances in chemistry and natural science to medical advances and breakthroughs in scientific practices all leading to new breakthroughs and discoveries that counter what people have believed in for many years. Many people in the church believed against the study of the human body since it contradicted their belief that the body is the temple of the spirit “Early Christian thinkers from Tertullian to St Augustine opposed the study of anatomy as the work of butchers” (Montillo 84). This contradiction of the faith and science was not uncommon and was exhibited many times during this era and can be seen many times. The church is not shown within the novel of Frankenstein but the practices performed and the experiments undergone within the novel were what was considered wrong by the church and fought against by the faith during this time. All these factors and occurrences that happened during the late 1700’s and the early 1800’s helped encourage and inspire many of the elements that happened in