The tragic example of Victor Frankenstein serves to generally highlight the danger of man’s uncontrolled thirst for knowledge, a science without morality; however, a deeper consideration of the novel’s text reveals a subtle contradiction to such an interpretation.While Shelley exemplifies a disastrous effect of absolute desire to possess the secrets of the earth, she employs a subtext filled with contradictory language, which implies that such curiosity is natural to mankind and virtually separate from the human
