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Mary Shelly’s Combination
Title: Mary Shelly’s Combination
Category: History
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Mary Shelly’s Combination
Mary Shelly’s Combination Of Knowledge and Humanity
In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelly is not trying to reinforce the biblical thought of a forbidden knowledge, but is rather introducing the thought that science is capable of being very dangerous if it becomes divided from humanity. The reason that it could be conceived that Mary Shelly is reinforcing the idea of forbidden knowledge is because of the constant statements that Victor Frankenstein makes about how …showed first 75 words of 1264 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1264 total…humanity as a whole. Science created by the individual for one’s own gain, much like Victor Frankenstein’s creature, will not have the different perspectives necessary to make that science applicable to all of humanity. Therefore science pursued in this manner will either cause damage, or will need to be reconstructed by others to reach it’s full potential.
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**Bibliography**
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, edited by D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf. 1994, broadview literary texts
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