Mary Shelly's Frankenstein: a Modern Prometheus shows us that acquiring to much knowledge can be dangerous. The reason we know what we know is because that's what the world wants us to know, the digger you deep the worse it is. Acquiring excessive knowledge is dangerous because your learn things that you should not know. Acquiring Excessive knowledge is dangerous because when learning about information that you should not be learning about can opens doors to other things doors should not be opened to.
In the book Frankenstein: a Modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein begins to get curious about life and death. He begins to think about bringing people back from the dead, this is when things begin to get dangerous for him. Victor Frankenstein loved to experiment and seeing the bodies move when her ran electricity