“I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world” said Victor Frankenstein. The quote exemplifies the idea of misused knowledge which spurred Victor to create the Monster. Knowledge was very important to the enlightenment thinkers and they wanted secular knowledge and so Shelley says in this quote that the misuse of knowledge can lead to your downfall. This idea relates to the French Revolution that was sparked by the Enlightenment and led Napoleon Bonaparte to power. Shelley also states the relationship between creator and being, giving a sort of satire of God and us as we were created by God.

- Dev Singh