"Yet I fear such will be my fate; the men, unsupported by ideas of glory and honour, can never willingly continue to endure their present hardships." pg. 160
The story of Frankenstein is a tangled web of frame stories and perspectives that follows the journey of three beings: Walton, Victor, and the Creature. These men have embarked on strange and difficult journeys that have worn them down both physically and mentally. However, this whole story would have never happened if these men did not go on a pursuit for knowledge, more specifically to use science to be greater than nature. Walton was on his journey to discover new paths and the secret of the magnet. On this journey he came across Victor who was making him journey to find the creature he created. He created the creature to overcome death and to bring life from nothing. The creature is running from his wrong doings which he committed to avenge the way humans treated him. His attempts to learn about the humans and be accepted as one of their own led people to be frightened of him or reject him. If none of these men had been pursuing greater knowledge so obsessively they would have never gotten themselves into this mess. Therefore I think it could be stated that a theme of this novel could be that Pursuing knowledge obsessively can end up hurting people more than helping them. Victor tells the story of the creature in order to warn Walton from ending up making the same mistakes he did. Victor's story is the epitome of this theme.
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