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Lack Of Knowledge In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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As Frankenstein blindly pursued the knowledge responsible for his demise, his egotistical persona began to take root. He sees knowledge as power and when he conjures up the idea to build a monster, his “imagination was too much exalted by [his] first success to permit [him] to doubt of [his] ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man” because he believes his brilliance surpasses the mundane restriction of failure (lines 5-6). Frankenstein’s use of the word “exalted” while reflecting on his thought process when creating the monster shows his recognition of his enlarged ego due to the pursuit of the dangerous knowledge. In addition to his lack of doubt, he also overlooked “the magnitude and complexity” of creating another
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