Frankenstein

Something caught my attention that I hadn't really thought about until we got our assignment sheet for our annotated bibliography and paper proposal. As I was reading through the list of topics we were provided with, I saw that one of them was about passion versus reason. I hadn't thought about it at all before I read it, but that is exactly what Frankenstein did when he created this monster, put passion before reason. He was very passionate about science after reading the works of Cornelius Agrippa, and even after his father told him he shouldn't be reading it, he continued to be consumed by it. His father said, "Ah! Cornelius Agrippa! My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash" (Shelley 21). This seemed to have made it really strike home for Frankenstein and he continued to read other works, including those of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus. He learned all he could and then used this passion to use science to create his monster. He created this monster without even thinking about what the possible outcomes could be and he ended up hurting those he was closest to.