Frankenstein Ch. 14-16 by Emily Garrison https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm Does knowledge, ultimately, help or hurt the creature? Use evidence from your reading to explain how the creature is affected by his acquisition of knowledge. en-us 2018-10-03 12:18:16 UTC 2023-06-10 07:24:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png emily_garrison https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288603592 2018-10-03 13:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288603592 emily_garrison https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288603771 2018-10-03 13:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288603771 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288604799 Knowledge ultimately helped the creature. “Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch’s Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter. The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations. I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books.” The creature learned how to speak and read, as well as why he scared people and how not to do that, and he simply gained a better understanding of the world overall. It didn’t help him deal with emotion any better, but it was helpful because it gave him wisdom and practical skills. ]]> 2018-10-03 13:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288604799 emily_garrison https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605105 2018-10-03 13:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605105 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605140 Knowledge will ultimately help the creature. Knowledge will ultimately help the creature by keeping him sane, giving him wisdom, and help him to be sympathetic towards others. The monster is more sympathetic to others than Frankenstein because he believes they are unhappy and wants to cheer them up. The monster chooses to be caring towards others because he understands them on a deeper level, maybe even considering that he was once one of them. The more he reads, the wiser he becomes, gaining insight on the world and the people. The insight the monster has seems to be more “woke” than an average man and he scares himself into misery for the unknown is unseen.

]]> 2018-10-03 13:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605140 Knowledge is ultimately going to hurt the creature. As he obtains more knowledge he begins to learn all the things he’s missing in his life causing him to obsess over what he doesn’t have. “Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded” (Ch 10). The creature is continuously observing the world around him, much like a child would, affecting his happiness. For example, when raising a child parents typically shelter their children from things they don't feel is good for their growing minds. Frankenstein’s creature has no one to protect him from the world leaving him forced to face it all on his own. Not only is this hurting his self-esteem but possibly his ability to obtain future information. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605383 2018-10-03 13:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605383 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605534 Knowledge will hurt the creature. The text says “As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and conditions.” and then it says “I was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free, and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic.” The creature reads all of these things and his feelings relate to it well, but him, his self, doesn’t relate to it at all and he’s alone. The creator questioned about why he was and was never able to figure them out. ]]> 2018-10-03 13:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605534 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605541 Knowledge ultimately hurts the creature. The monster wants to become a real human being, looks so he goes to great extents to learn to speak and interact with people. Examples of the monster learns to speak, discovers his senses, and finds food. The creature tries to fit in and be like other humans. The monster hopes that if he can gain knowledge and act like a human, then he will not be sunned or beaten. After his plan fails, he he seeks revenge and becomes violent. Now, he will only be seen as the monster he truly is.]]> 2018-10-03 13:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605541 In the story, Frankenstein, the creature having knowledge, ultimately, hurts the creature throughout the story. The quote, “I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had for ever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!”, explains how the creature is in pain because he learned so much from other people. The creature, or anyone, can’t long for or feel pain about something they don’t know. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605552 2018-10-03 13:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605552 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605772 Knowledge would ultimately help the monster because, it would know the difference between right and wrong. The monsters constant watch on the cottage helps him understand how people function, “Several changes, in the meantime, took place in the cottage. The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants, and I also found that a greater degree of plenty reigned there (chapter 15).” Frankenstein’s monster just sits there and observes what he sees. The monster makes connections based on what he sees and relates it to how he should act. He watches the cottage in order to understand how to function, as if he wants to blend into society one day.

]]> 2018-10-03 13:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288605772 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288606206 The creature will ultimately end up hurt by knowledge. As the creature lives with the family, he tries to to talk to De Lacey, since the old man is blind, but gets caught and scares away the family. This hurts the creature and leads to him being filled with anger and burning down their house. Throughout this time, the creature grows hateful towards the humans and hate the way they treat him because he looks scary and this leads to things like 🤬 because he doesn’t know what to do with all the rage and can’t tell the difference between good and bad.]]> 2018-10-03 13:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288606206 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288606683 The creature is able to benefit greatly from the knowledge he obtains. He begins to be able to understand the, “views of social life”. He also begins to, “admire their virtues and deprecate the vices of mankind.” Through the sudden increase in understanding the creature could be able to blend more easily in to society. His understanding of how society works and prosper could help him learn how to properly communicate with humans and lead him to his true desire, a companion.  ]]> 2018-10-03 13:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288606683 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288606997 In “Frankenstein,” by Mary Shelley, the knowledge the creature has will ultimately hurt him in someway. The creature is becoming more evil than good once he vows revenge on the humans for looking at him as a monster instead of human and for making his feel so alone in the world. The creature gains knowledge of how he will looks which causes his self esteem to drop very low, he learns the language of the DeLacey family so he can try to befriend them which end horribly when they chase his out of their cottage, and lastly he tells Frankenstein that he must create another creature just like him so that he will not be alone, but if Frankenstein doesn’t do this then the creature will killhim. ]]> 2018-10-03 13:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288606997 Knowledge ultimately helps the creature. As the creature reads more, he starts to understand more and starts to ask himself questions such as ““What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?” With this new the creature describes himself as “solitary and abhorred,” so he tries to convince himself that he could get acquainted with the cottagers and make friends with them if they saw that he was nice and his presence didn’t matter. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288607605 2018-10-03 13:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288607605 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288607663 Knowledge would ultimately hurt the monster. It begins to know the way of the humans and wants to be just like one. Once understanding he can’t will change his emotions into anger. Too much knowledge would make the monster understand so much that once the creature makes a certain mistake, it would torture him for the rest of his life. Changing the way the monster thinks will make it become dangerous and fear everyone. 

]]> 2018-10-03 13:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288607663 In Frankenstein,the creature knowledge ultimately helps him throughout chapter 14-16. Without his knowledge he would not be not know how the correctly approach De Lacey ,an old blind man. Instead of using his anger after Felix struck him, he realized that that was not who he was. His knowledge saved him from danger,and harm. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288607870 2018-10-03 13:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288607870 Knowledge ultimately hurts the creature due to people’s wrongful doings of the past and the monster’s increasing ability to understand these things. It says in the text, “The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment! Thanks to the lessons of Felix and the sanguinary laws of man, I had learned now to work mischief.” The history and past of evil doings that the monster learned about caused it to decide how it would treat humans in a different, more violent way. In the end, this hurts the creature because it cannot look past the rage emerging inside to see the beauty of the world even in bad times. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288607932 2018-10-03 13:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288607932 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288608017 The creatures pursuit of knowledge will ultimately help him with his life, because in the pursuit of knowledge the creature reads books that create feelings inside of him. “I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.” This quote from the monster shows how books are creating new feelings for the monster, they’re giving the monster a new reason to live life. Without pursuing knowledge what is the purpose of life.

]]> 2018-10-03 13:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288608017 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288608528 2018-10-03 13:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288608528 Having more knowledge will hurt the creature because the more it understands what is going on, the more hurt it will become. In the text, it says “I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am.” This just proves that feelings, and knowledge of what the creature will start to understand more of why things are making him upset. With knowledge , the creature can now relate events that happen with why they happen. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288610781 2018-10-03 13:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288610781 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288611296 The Knowledge that he learns soon hurts him. He finds books that he compares himself to those characters, which are not good people. Also, the books that he is reading is helping him learn that some of the things he has done in the past were wrong, and is describing to him why they were wrong. Which will ultimately hurt him, and lower his self esteem thinking he is a bad person. Eventually, the thirst the monster has for knowledge, will ruin his life. It is seen as dangerous knowledge. 

]]> 2018-10-03 13:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288611296 Frankenstein Explanation!! 🤖🙀 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288611509 Ultimately, knowledge helps the creature because if he had even a little knowledge of how to speak, how to interact in the outside world, and also, how to control his emotions and strength, then the creature would most likely be more comprehensive and understand how human lives work. Dr. Frankenstein states, “And what was I? Of my creation and creator, I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.” Victor has not given the monster someone or something to learn from, therefore, it is left alone to learn whatever it can find out. However, it cannot learn social morals from reading a book.]]> 2018-10-03 13:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288611509 Knowledge ultimately hurts the creature, by him seeing how the world perceives him and that there is no one like him. WIthin chapter 15 and 16 of Frankenstein the creature states “Who can describe the horror and consternation on beholding me?” With this it is evident that the creature now knows how he is perceived by others. With this newfound knowledge the creature late returns to his dwelling angry at his image and also angry at his creator. He also later states “ no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, i gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings.” This also shows how the creature’s new knowledge affects his self esteem and self image of himself. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288611567 2018-10-03 13:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288611567 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288614406 Knowledge ultimately helps the creature, as it helps him understand why the humans see him as a monster. The monster's knowledge allow him to see himself for what he is, shown when he talks about it himself after gaining the knowledge: “Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade,” (chapter 15). This perspective, though admittedly very pessimistic, give the monster a true vision of himself. The monster can sympathize with the humans because, upon seeing his own reflections, he is recoiled by himself. This knowledge makes the monster much more sympathetic towards humans, and this allows him to self-actualize about his situation. If he did not have this knowledge, the creature would still be miserable, but would have no way of seeing why he was in his situation. While this knowledge may ultimately be bad for humans, as it makes the monster hate them, it is much better for the monster’s own psychology to know that he is hated and why he is hated.]]> 2018-10-03 13:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288614406 Knowledge ultimately hurts the creature. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288614941 The creature goes to great lengths to gain knowledge so he can interact with people, and not be shunned and attacked by society for the way he is. But things backfire and hurt him. "I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge." This means that the more knowledge he had, the more he realized how people felt about him and how alone he was. 

]]> 2018-10-03 13:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288614941 https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288616262 Did knowledge help or hurt the creature? In “frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, It hurt him, knowledge was bad for the creature. Before he didn’t know any difference but when he began to understand things he realize how mean people could be. He wants to become like humans and be friends but he knows he is the only one of his kind and people won’t like him so he vows to kills humans and get the dr. to make him a mate. ]]> 2018-10-03 13:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288616262 Knowledge would ultimately hurts the creature. Teaching himself won't be the same as someone teaching him. He continuously questions whom he is such as “ Who am I? Why did I live? What was I ? Where did i come from?” With you knowing this the creature is anonymous to himself, he describes himself as confused and indistinct, and filled with an onslaught of sensations. He came into the world confused usually people come into the world as a kid but he wasn’t a normal human being. https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288829418 2018-10-03 18:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_garrison/qhx8esioklrm/wish/288829418