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Technology, science and Frankenstein

Mary Shelley must have been inspired from the improvement in science and technology for some parts of the novel. Enhancement in science and by unveiling secrets of nature brought Victor Frankenstein (or the author) the whole idea of creating another being, hoping to make improvements on the original one. He imagines it as some kind of a  superhuman  that is safe from disease and other harmfulness and looks up to the creator, which is Victor himself. When Victor was 13 years old, he became aware of natural philosophy by reading books written by philosophers including Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albertus. He shows such passion to  penetrate the secrets of nature . To quote from the book, he says  what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!  From this quote, we can see Victor s thirst for knowledge. At that time, Victor did not know what he was getting himself into  he did not know that the knowledge he was so captured with were dangerous and forbidden knowledge. (Source: Shelley)

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