Frankenstein paper

[transcribed from sketchbook in class]

Brainstorming:

-Development of tunnel vision
-Positive and negative feedback systems, equilibrium points, shifting paradigms
-Initial innocence (victor's childhood, innocent pursuit of knowledge)
-Premise that knowledge/scientific pursuits primary above all else, difficult problem to solve is consuming
-Vestigial remnants of tunnel vision after knowledge/achievement, consequences of this
-Atrophy of old self, growth of new corrupt irrational self in place of old which takes over mental landscape
-Old self partitioned off, brought out by love or sacred values

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I want to write most of my paper carefully documenting the process of acquiring tunnel vision and the following intellectual hangover that results. I'll use the novel as a reference, loosely following the story, referencing the relevant bits and quoting if it's fruitful.

Tonight at 8, 9 central, you'll experience the long, irritatingly arduous editing process of the one, Adrian Batson, developing his thesis for the exciting up-and-coming paper due in 48 hours!

To a grand, brilliant mind, intellectual tunnel vision is a constant threat.

A mind can be defined by how wide a perspective it holds over the world it perceives. When this perspective narrows, one can be crippled and destroyed by the paralyzing disconnect from reality. In the novel Frankenstein, the protagonist experiences the agony of complete personal downfall through, and as a by product, of his indulgence in a careless pursuit of knowledge.


A mind can be defined by the scope of the perspective it holds over the world it perceives. When a mind's perspective narrows, it's not only crippled by the following disconnect from reality, but permanently altered when the new paradigm sets root in the dying, unused mental real estate left sadly abandoned. In the novel Frankenstein, the protagonist Victor Frankenstein experiences the agony of complete personal downfall through, and as a by product of, his indulgence in a careless pursuit of ultimate knowledge.

That'll do for now. Gotta stay up all night to write it. Sigh.