Influence Of Education In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

“This was my duty; but there was another still paramount to that. My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attentions, because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery” (Shelley 184). Dr. Victor Frankenstein was a brilliant scientist whose ideas were to bring both not only success but death upon others including his own loved ones. Like most scientists in real life today and from the past, they tend to struggle with whatever knowledge they can learn about. The only problem was that the education they possess shows that they have no idea of the outcome of their experiments until tested and by doing so scientists can easily temper with the laws of nature on animals, humans and even the environment, not to mention defying information from other scientists to prove their own theories correct and to

the negative influence, from Victor’s point of view, and show how there truly is no answer to the kind of influence that can provide us with stable lives based on the outcome of their

For someone like Victor Frankenstein, education does indeed provide negative influence on society. His view on science became misunderstood with his theories on resurrecting the dead and people saw him more of a monster than a man of science. Other than his creation being the monster, Victor to me, would be the monster in this story because his decisions were an act against god without thinking of the consequences and the blood of everyone his creation had killed would be on his hands. People today wonder about the scientists of today and though most use their education to help then environment and the people living in it, but whether or not there are others like Victor Frankenstein who would try to defy god like he had