Knowledge Increases The Sorrow Quote Analysis

Knowledge is defined as facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. Also means awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. In our age, it’s the age of information and quickly developing technologies, for modern people, knowledge is a need to survive in this world. Every day people need more and more new knowledge. even in the Bible, God warns men that knowledge brings more regret than it does value: "He that increases the knowledge increases the sorrow".
In my opinion, I believe that knowledge could be good or bad. I believe it is the people that interpret knowledge that put a negative or positive spin on it. Hitler's autobiographical-political book, Mein Kampf, is banned in some bookstores and libraries because some are scared that people will become influenced by it and adapt Hitler's ideas. If someone were to begin trying to exterminate Jews, it would be because of their mind set, not because of the knowledge the book contained. In a different …show more content…
In the book Frankenstein, it refers to the dangerousness or forbidden nature of Victor's seeking of knowledge.There is a quote in Chapter Two, where he is admitting that the knowledge he seeks "the secrets of heaven and earth" are ones that shouldn’t really be looked for. By him using the word "secret" Victor is admitting that the knowledge he is looking for is forbidden.Another example on how knowledge could be dangerous. Say that frankenstein was a true story. Frankenstein had all of that knowledge on how to make a monster, well he makes the monster and the monster is actually alive, is evil and kills everyone around him. That would be a danger to him and society, just because he had that knowledge on how to make him come alive, not knowing how the monster would