nor known or felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat. Of what strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock."1 The creature knows that had he remained ignorant, he would have remained happy. He is aware that there is no going back. Once you know something, it cannot willingly be forgotten.
             Knowledge affects Frankenstein in a more complex way. His acquired knowledge and skills gives him a new power. He foolishly bends the laws of nature and, like a blind man firing a gun, he unleashes the fruit of his knowledge on the unsuspecting world. Although he does eventually come to see the potential destructive force of his knowledge, he never sees it as a threat in itself. Victor never contends that his life would have been in a better state had he not gone to university. Hi
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