Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein explains the consequences of dangerous knowledge through Victors characters which can be compared to the Holocaust and Dr. Mengele. The consequences of dangerous knowledge can ruin a person. Victor created a horrid monster that not only brought hell onto him but caused the life of many others also. Dangerous knowledge has gotten the best of many people for many generations. It has affected so many people in so many different ways. I believe there is a point where we take knowledge too far, as humans we have a thirst for knowledge and will do anything possible for it, it turns into an obsession. Victor created a monster that reflected himself. He became so overwhelmed with death and the secret of life that it became
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Mengele was intrigued with twins. He would perform awful operations on the twins without any type of pain medicine. He work shows us that not only did he have a thirst for knowledge but a knowledge that would as lead to death just as Victors exploration of dangerous knowledge did. His exploration of dangerous knowledge also costed many young lives. The consequences of dangerous/forbidden knowledge ranges from many different things. You seem to lose your values and morals and let the desire take over your life. Victore states “My limbs now tremble and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, almost frantic, impulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit” (Shelley chapter 4). In this quote we see that Victor knows that his exploration of dangerous knowledge has ruined him and his life, he realizes he lost everything and everyone he had once had. Victor let his health go in the process also, to complete the monster he would sleep less and he states that he had a “nervous fever” (Shelley chapter 5). When you let something overtake your life you suffer as a person and we can see this happen to Victor. Now when it comes to Dr. Mengele the consequences of his exploration of knowledge did not affect him as much as they affected
Mengele was intrigued with twins. He would perform awful operations on the twins without any type of pain medicine. He work shows us that not only did he have a thirst for knowledge but a knowledge that would as lead to death just as Victors exploration of dangerous knowledge did. His exploration of dangerous knowledge also costed many young lives. The consequences of dangerous/forbidden knowledge ranges from many different things. You seem to lose your values and morals and let the desire take over your life. Victore states “My limbs now tremble and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, almost frantic, impulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit” (Shelley chapter 4). In this quote we see that Victor knows that his exploration of dangerous knowledge has ruined him and his life, he realizes he lost everything and everyone he had once had. Victor let his health go in the process also, to complete the monster he would sleep less and he states that he had a “nervous fever” (Shelley chapter 5). When you let something overtake your life you suffer as a person and we can see this happen to Victor. Now when it comes to Dr. Mengele the consequences of his exploration of knowledge did not affect him as much as they affected