In Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, there is a revolving theme of how knowledge is both a curse and a blessing. Victor strives to transcend death by creating a creature that would symbolize man’s desire for knowledge, and of the monster that craves for the acceptance of society. This theme is emphasized throughout the story of how one’s own desire of knowledge can lead to one’s downfall because of humanity’s selfish motives through the use of detailed imagery, sorrowful allusions, and in medias res to show the burdens in which resides from the acquisition for knowledge. Frankenstein in his quest for knowledge led to the design of a being with “yellow skin, covered with muscles and arteries beneath” “lustrous black hair”, and “teeth of pearly whiteness”. (pg.42) These physical details of the monster illustrate the grotesqueness of the monster and how through Frankenstein’s intelligence creates the monster in hopes of creating a “new species which would bless him as its creator” (pg.38), but in a turn of events causes him great suffering from the loss of William and others who were dear to him shrouded in the feelings of “anguish he sufferedbusy in scenes of evil and despair” (pg.60). In this quest for knowledge Victor only created pain and suffering through the birth of his own knowledge and creation. This dream Victor had of creating the monster where it “would owe its being to him” (pg.38) to bliss him had turned into a nightmare instead. Frankenstein’s own creation roamed free learning and trying to adapt to human society. As time passed Frankenstein and the monster came face to face but this time the monster was more educated and now knew what he was; a monstrosity to society for his appearance. The curse of the monsters knowledge causes him to consider he was a “fitter emblem of Satan”. (pg.110) The monster “like Adam, was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but