Frankenstein Themes
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- English Literature-Frankenstein Themes-Knowledge&discovery
- key aspects
- scientific experimentation
- How does Shelly show this?
- Shelley shows that more modern scientific practice can be hazardous precisely because it works She also shows the reader that in the hands of someone obsessive like Frankenstein, scientific experimentation can pose real dangers.
- evidence
- None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A mind of moderate capacity, which closely pursues one study, must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit, and was solely wrapped up in this, improved so rapidly that, at the end of two years, I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
- Analysis
- Victor compares scientific study to other forms of learning
- He feels that with science you can go on continuously discovering new things
- Analysis
- None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A mind of moderate capacity, which closely pursues one study, must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit, and was solely wrapped up in this, improved so rapidly that, at the end of two years, I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
- evidence
- Shelley shows that more modern scientific practice can be hazardous precisely because it works She also shows the reader that in the hands of someone obsessive like Frankenstein, scientific experimentation can pose real dangers.
- How does Shelly show this?
- language development
- language development
- How does Shelley show this ?
- the Monster does not automatically have the power of language but has to learn it as a child would do
- Evidence
- None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonde
- Analysis
- Victor compares scientific study to other forms of learning
- Analysis
- None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonde
- Evidence
- the Monster does not automatically have the power of language but has to learn it as a child would do
- How does Shelley show this ?
- scientific experimentation
- key aspects
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