The attainment of knowledge that the Creature obtained corrupted and improved him through the application of philosophical and scientific connections. The philosophical corruption starts when the creature confronts Victor about his abandonment and irresponsibility he showed creating him. He also tells Victor to establish his argument about the ethics of playing God with science and taking responsibility of being a father figure. The desire to be loved and accepted as a normal human being without being called a monster leads to his philosophical corruption. He says, “ I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and …show more content…
The creature argues with Victor about him being responsible for his miserable plight in the universe as an outcast who never knew the meaning of love and companionship. The philosophical idea I think; therefore, I am can be stated as, “Only the proposition, cogito ergo sum, “I think, therefore I am,” remained. Descartes reasoned that one cannot doubt one’s existence without existing while one doubts” ( “Rene Descartes”). This describes the desire of the creature to believe that he was similar as other human beings who had a right to be loved and cared. His corruption helps him to communicate in an eloquent and persuasive words to convince an individual like Victor. Nevertheless, the pursuit of proving to have a soul after discovering truth of physical existence from Victor’s journal leads the Creature to his scientific corruption. Victor Frankenstein messes with God’s rules, which leads him to Paradise lost where the thirst of knowledge forces him to attempt way to take over God’s creation. He states, “My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? Whence did I come ? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, bu I was able to solve them.” (Shelley