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...story, the fear of knowledge. One could argue that Shelley is contradicting herself, because she too was like Frankenstein, always having this thirst for knowledge. Shelley grew up in a family of writers and always read and acquired knowledge, but in Frankenstein, she is delivering that exact opposite message. Perhaps Shelley is doing so because she wants to prevent monsters from forming in real life. Perhaps she doesn’t want anyone to undergo the hardships she went through. The following quote from the story is Mary Shelley speaking through the voice of a character in her story, “Learn from me… how dangerous the acquirement of knowledge is, and how much happier the man is who believes his native town to be the world, then who aspires to become greater than his nature will a...