Why Is Curiosity Important In Frankenstein

Humans are naturally curious, but in Frankenstein that curiosity leads to unfortunate events happening. These events show that unchecked curiosity leads to tragedy and troublemaking. Everything terrible that happened to Victor was due too his curiosity. He was curious about creating life, the monster's threat; the monster was curious about humanity. Victor is so enamored at the idea of creating life. He spends months studying at Ingolstadt and then in isolation working on his own creation, the monster. "After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils. But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were

This curiosity leads to Victor playing God and creating life. "But Pandora was very curious about what was in the box. She begged Epimetheus to let her open it, but he always said no. Finally one day he fell asleep, and she stole the key (or broke the seal) and opened the box (or vase)" (Pandora's Box). Pandora and Victor can be compared in the sense that both could not contain their curiosity. Once both of them let loose their monster, evil was released into the world. The monster then leaves victor and proceeds to ruin his life. What more could he have accomplished, had he not created the monster (Rhetorical Question)? A mind as brilliant as Victors could have been destined to discover so much more (Ethos). "It feeds a pattern of emotional highs and lows that keeps us hooked (Curiosity: The Good, the Bad, and the Useless). The reason Victor pursued creating the monster was because it provided color to his life at Ingolstadt. Perhaps he was traumatized by the death of his mother, and wanted the means to bring her back. Although, had Victor not been curious in tempting the fates, his life