Mary Shelley's perceptions of science and the dangerous power it potentially holds are intuitive.

I agree with Mary Shelley's perceptions of science and the dangerous power it potentially holds. Many humans tend to experiment to learn how things work and to invent things to help us survive. But others go too far and want to play to God, creating things that they know humans cannot. Victor Frankenstein wants to be remembered after he dies, so he decides that he's going to create life with his own hands. He wasn't aware of the ethics involved in creating such a thing. He did it because it suited him. "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow(p.31)." This quote describes Victor very well because he isn't satisfied with his surroundings, he wants to branch off into some unknown territory. His creation that he thought would be a blessing to the world was actually a disaster. Victor tortured the monster by abandoning it and letting people harm him. In return for that injustice, the monster tormented Victor's conscious. Mary Shelley seems like she is trying to give us some type of warning of how powerful humans can be when it comes to science. There isn't a need to go beyond the normal standard to create something that can possibly be harmful to human race just to be better than the next person.