Lack Of Knowledge Thesis Examination
“Knowledge is power.” This is a famous phrase that has a lot of truth to it. What if the knowledge is incomplete? Is it still powerful or just a burden? Frankenstein and his creature are a prime example of the burden brought on one’s life through incomplete knowledge. Frankenstein has a great grasp of knowledge of the physical world but
lacks that grasp of knowledge of the emotional world. He creates a creature with the mind of a human but with a body that is severely disformed. I will discuss how the creature can be viewed as a symbol of Frankenstein’s lack of knowledge and how that can be a burden on life, through an examination of their experiences, formal and informal. In some ways, ...
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87)[5] He thirsts for knowledge of the material world. If he notices an idea that is not yet realized in the material world, he attempts to work on the idea to get it realized, or give it a worldly existence. He creates the creature and rejects it because its worldly form did not reflect the brilliance of his original idea. The unlearned creature is thrown out into the world and is forced to discover the hidden meanings behind human life and society, on his own.
Frankenstein speaks fondly of his youth because his parents were lenient and his companions were pleasant. (21)[5] His parents’ believed that when bringing up their children there should not be punishment or a strict hold telling their children what to do. (21) Instead, they encourage their children to study hard, and to know what the goal is that their children plan to reach through that studying. (21)[5] His parents thought, by having their children create their own process to reach an end goal, that their children would ...
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the free individual. Without the structured approaches of an education system, and the support, love, and shelter of a family, the creature in spite of that gains an education of sorts. He does this by reacting to his environment and life; his basic needs for shelter, food, warmth and companionship.(46)[6] In the book, Mary Shelly: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters, Anne Mellor argues that the creature is Mary Shelly’s allusion to Rousseau’s “noble savage” or “a creature no different from the animals, responding unconsciously to the needs of his flesh and the changing conditions of his environment.”(Mellor 47) In the debate on the importance of nature versus nurture, Mellor explains ...
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