The Importance Of Knowledge In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

One could say that Prometheus’ pursuit to give power to humankind and be seen as a god was the same as Victor’s pursuit to surpass human limitation. It is known that Victor and his obsession to “play God” led to the creation of the monster that would later wreak havoc in Victor’s life. Victor then warns Walton of the dangers of thriving to become more than he is and urges him not to continue in his search into the unknown. So, Did Victor’s destructive thirst for knowledge lead him and those he loved to detriment?
The monster proclaimed to Victor, “All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.” This quote, taken from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, tells of the monsters pain of being
This was Victor realizing that everything he did leading to the creation of the monster was a sin and he was destined to misfortune when his ambition first arose. Walton and Victors studies and adventures were completely different but the underlying actions the same. The thirst to be greater than themselves and be more than human.
Victor payed the price for his volatile ambition and his thirst for forbidden knowledge. He was doomed to a terrible fate when he began his academics and search for greatness because if he decided to be a common man all the misfortune that came to him would have never occurred. The danger of knowledge is very prominent in Frankenstein and is the beginning of all Victor’s