Strangers and Orphans: Knowledge and Mutuality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is an article written by Claudia Rozas Gomez discussing the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley. The article uses Paulo Freire’s educational ideals as a way to compare how the quest for knowledge effects the characters in Frankenstein to his ideas. The article touches on the themes throughout the novel, and the outcomes obtaining too much knowledge can have. One of the outcomes is becoming disconnected from people you are close with, and the other is mutuality, which is a mutual quality. Gomez discusses how Victor and the Monsters quest for knowledge effects their relationships with other people. In the section Contrasting Conceptualizations of Knowledge
