Knowledge: Can it be Sin to Know? The aim of this paper is to explore the theme of 'forbidden knowledge¡ by analysing Mary Shelley¡s Frankenstein and John Milton¡s Paradise Lost, so as to show some of the aspects in which these two stories are remarkably similar. In order to achieve this, th...

"The truth about man is not merely that he is, by nature, savage and afraid, but that he refuses deliverance, and murders the messenger of light"(Dick, "Criticism" 197). This view of our nature as human beings is based on the teachings of the Christian doctrine of original sin, ...