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Nature, Knowledge, And Science In Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Introduction
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Victor Frankenstein explores new science techniques creating a monster that he cannot control.
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses various themes to convey meaning to the novel related to nature, knowledge, and science.
First piece of support begins with a transition and topic (could be first body paragraph).
Nature
"I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?"
When the monster realizes how ugly and hated he is he uses nature to hide in and it comforts him.
Second piece of support begins with a transition and topic (could be second body paragraph).
Science
“My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge”
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He read false info and wasted his time on it.
Third piece of support begins with a transition and topic (could be third body paragraph).
Knowledge
“Increase knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was”
The monster kept gaining knowledge of the world around him and soon started to understand more and more of how others viewed him, he lost his innocence.

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