“If you give some people too much knowledge without wisdom, they invent atom bombs and war machines and spaceships and go about making war and shooting off into space while millions are starving to death.” Essentially, what this mean is that too much knowledge in some people hands can be really dangerous and could end up hurt one or millions of other people. The theme of having too much knowledge appears in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein meets Robert Walton on his voyage to the North Pole and tells him his about his life and the creature he created. Mary Shelley uses literary devices to manipulate the voices of Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Creature into making the reader feel the same emotions as the speaker.
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Robert Walton writes to his sister multiple times during his voyage and the one thing he makes clear is how excited he is to be on this voyage. In his first letter, the reader learns that his love for the sea started at a very young age. He said how he would, “study day and night” (16), the volumes his uncle kept in his library. Because of these volumes, Walton love for the sea grew. It grew to a point where he could no longer ignore it and began on a voyage of his own. On the start of his voyage he says that his, “heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven” and how his mind is “tranquilize” (16). He goes so far as in to call this expedition his “favorite dream” (16). In passage one, Shelley shows the reader how it was Walton’s dream to sail on the sea, and now that he is able to make that dream a reality, how excited he
Robert Walton writes to his sister multiple times during his voyage and the one thing he makes clear is how excited he is to be on this voyage. In his first letter, the reader learns that his love for the sea started at a very young age. He said how he would, “study day and night” (16), the volumes his uncle kept in his library. Because of these volumes, Walton love for the sea grew. It grew to a point where he could no longer ignore it and began on a voyage of his own. On the start of his voyage he says that his, “heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven” and how his mind is “tranquilize” (16). He goes so far as in to call this expedition his “favorite dream” (16). In passage one, Shelley shows the reader how it was Walton’s dream to sail on the sea, and now that he is able to make that dream a reality, how excited he