Achieving Knowledge In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature experiences the harm of desiring knowledge. Although knowledge supposedly provides power and benefits the human mind, Victor Frankenstein’s creature understands his dreaded existence through the acquisition of knowledge and develops a sense of maliciousness and misery, proving that knowledge can be harmful. Due to the creature’s need for knowledge he begins to understand his existence. While staying in the hovel the creature notices how beautiful the cottagers are. He believes that he is just a s beautiful until he sees himself in a transparent pool and “when (he) became fully convinced that (he) was in reality the monster that (he) is”(102). Upon discovering his monstrous appearance the creature