Frankenstein ': Mary Shelley's The Unknown'

Tanner McLeod

December 17, 2015

Mrs. Joyner

Honors English IV

The Unknown The knowledge of men and women has grown over the past thousand years. Society’s outlook on humanity has changed greatly due to furthering the idea of every day conceptions. The human quest for knowledge will lead to destruction, becoming informed can cause more harm, and the results found can ruin lives. The Frankenstein novel appears as a warning to society’s destruction by digging into the unknown. Human’s quest to reach into the unknown and discover the undiscovered has grown over the past thousand years. Humans dug into the knowledge of after life and nuclear physics. Humans attempted to figure out how to bring people back to life or discover a way to preserve

The people who get caught up in learning or experimenting something can forget or just simply ignore their own health. Humans may ignore when they become hungry and eat less often. They may not choose to sleep much but instead try to continue to experiment or learn. In “Frankenstein” Frankenstein becomes caught up in school and learning about science and chemistry. He then began working on his creature and when he finally finished he became mentally and physically sick. When Henry first comes to Ingolstadt and see’s Frankenstein he says “I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale; you look as if you had been watching for serval nights” (Shelley, “Frankenstein” 37). This shows you how when you devote yourself to the unknown you forget about yourself and allow yourself to become ill. . You also can intentionally or accidentally push people away by devoting yourself to your work. This can cause distance between the ones you love or your friends. Humans get caught up in discovering stuff that no one else has ever discovered because of the thrill that comes with it. They think of the fame and excitement that comes from discovering something even the riches that could come to them depending on what they discovered. Humans do not think of the percussions that come along with what they create or discover. In “Frankenstein” Frankenstein pushes his friends and loved ones away

Humans do not think about what they do before they attempt it. Father Thomas Euteneuer said “Its human nature. Human nature doesn’t listen” (Euteneuer). Euteneuer talks about how the unknown can lead to the destruction of a society. If something discovered could not be destroyed or cured could lead to destruction. Most things that get created have a cure but what if it is discovered by someone who wants to harm everyone and he is the only person with a cure at the moment. There are also weapons of mass destruction that have the ability to destroy a whole country. Humans dug into the unknown to find the secrets to possess and build such a weapon that could do unmark able things. Some scenario’s showed what a nuclear war could do not just to humans but also the climate “We also saw that two to four years after the event, rainfall would decrease globally by an average of about 10%” (Oman). This shows that there is more of an impact then just on the killing of people but also on the climate. Discovery’s like this could ruin lives and destroy many societies. A nuclear device, a disease, or a monster do not help people but they kill people and harm people. If these items end up in the wrong hands and could become used to cause chaos and could lead to the end of the human race. In “Frankenstein” Frankenstein creates a monster shunned by society “For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and