From a narrative perspective, the tension of reason versus passion is essential in primarily illustrating the following corruptive effects of Frankenstein’s quest for the knowledge of creation (Shelley 39). Within the text, though Frankenstein initially “delights in investigating the facts relative to the actual world,” and thereby, appears to adhere to a scientific ideology of reason, he soon becomes “contempt for the uses of modern philosophy” (Shelley 21, 29). In this way, Frankenstein abandons these modes of scientific reasoning and instead, he adopts the “wild fancies” or passion, for the practices of Alchemy (Shelley 23). For example, Frankenstein “greedily” begins to pursue the work of Alchemists such as Cornelius Agrippa and his studies