Knowledge Is A Double-Edged Knife In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Knowledge is the key to more information that can really stand you out from the rest. This can cause problems for people who crave the unknown or want more than what is given for self-benefit. Books and the internet can only do so much for us to increase technology or even increase work ethics, but in the bad side knowledge can lead up to using the information for terror or etc. The amount of information in this world is a double-edged knife for having it's good and bad to oneself and society and an example of this happening is in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.

Considering one side of that knife which deals with success its to know such things that you are aiming to do for the future. For example, with all the information that Frankenstein

has been receiving and gathering for his experiments for knowing the human anatomy to the point of making the move to make his monster born(Shelley,20). In some cases, people can say the messing with the dead and bringing them back to life goes against religion. And yet he believes that with what he had attained is for the betterment which doesn’t go his way.
And then comes the drawbacks of knowing to much, and this is because when using the information for experiments or applying it like what Frankenstein did; and what received was a monster that would only terrorize others by killing and then going against his own creator because he made his own morals of going against humans for how they faced him especially Frankenstein for then hating the monster for how he had looked(Shelley,162). Also since the mind of the monster was formed already and then him also increasing his knowledge of his surrounding he had then made his intelligence much greater for how wise he was.
A great example of the both is how a doctor would be since he has the knowledge to save lives daily with the amount of material he had to attain for his job, such as Frankenstein with him creating the monster with his skills and somewhat alchemy to bring the monster to life. And the danger of what doctors’ face is to lose a life by not meeting the margin needed for a surgery or procedure correctly, unlike Frankenstein who completed such with the amount of practice he had to do to make more progress to make sure that in the actual run he completes his task(Shelley,45). Such knowledge can come and go to achieve one’s goal such as he did.
In conclusion, information about anything can be used for good or bad depending on the person and so considering how the world is with never ending knowledge for things such as mathematics to engineering, and literature to books of subjects in any field. The way the mind is formed can lead to the way the mind uses the body for, which is a double-edged knife depicted in Frankenstein for the way he could have used his intellect for good, but used it to bring forth a challenger of how perception could change and the acts of the monster.