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The Protagonist For Knowledge In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Over the course of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein transforms into a melancholic and distraught man at the edge of death. From a youth Frankenstein was invested in psychology and the modern sciences; a curious boy, and a thirst for knowledge he alters into a remorseful, and guilty man. Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist and the eventual antagonist of the novel, begins his tragic tale as an innocent youth. Frankenstein was born in Geneva to Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort. As a child, he lived a lavish lifestyle, and eventually he received a gift in the form of Elizabeth Lavenza, his wife to be. Although he had always had a thirst for knowledge, change is seen after Frankenstein discovers the philosophical works
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