Lack Of Knowledge In Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

Dangerous Knowledge Having knowledge about things to me can either build you up or it can also be dangerous to you or the people that also have that knowledge of something. It can also shed light on things you may not want people to know or bring out the truth and it could build you up by building your character.
The reason that I say knowledge can build you up because you could have knowledge about things that people need to know and if you come out and tell the truth about it then you will feel good about yourself and it builds your character, but knowledge can build character in a bad way because it can make someone feel like they are better than everyone else because they do have that knowledge and other people do not. The main reason why I say …show more content…
For example if a person committed a crime like murder or stole something and you have knowledge of the person who did the crime and you keep it to yourself and the police end up finding out that you knew all of this stuff but you kept it to yourself then you can get into some bad trouble for harboring evidence. So knowledge is destructive like in the story when Victor has knowledge of the creature they tell him do not tell anyone else because just knowing that much about the creature could get you into a bad situation and people will not take kindly to the situation. So it is best just to keep the knowledge to yourself because if it gets out to the wrong people that you know about something bad then you could be in a lot of trouble, so yes knowledge in some cases can be very destructive, it can also be used to manipulate and punish someone because like I said if knowledge gets to the wrong people then it can be very destructive to someone because there are some horrible people in the world who take knowledge and do bad things with and and it can hurt not just one person but the people around