Indeed, it was in his pursuit of knowledge that Victor Frankenstein built the monster and started the entire tragedy; it was in his unwitting pursuit of knowledge that the creature came to terms with his own reality; and it was in his pursuit of knowledge that Robert Walton trapped his ship in ice and put the life of his crew at risk. In her novel "Frankenstein, " Mary Shelley parallels the stories of Victor Frankenstein, the creature, and Robert Walton to underscore the idea that knowledge is indeed a potentially great power, but that be extremely dangerous when one isn't in control of i...

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