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In her novella Frankenstein, Mary Shelley taps into the biblical story of man—his creation, sin, and expulsion from Eden—to emphasize through new experiences of pain and suffering, the loss of innocence that accompanies erudition.
At the most basic level, science is juxtaposed with the serpent so as to introduce the importance of the parallel themes in Genesis and Frankenstein.   Intended to be a cautionary tale about the dangers of heeding science"'"s claim to reveal the secrets of man, life, and nature, Frankenstein represents science as the serpent in that utopia of Eden, waiting to strike the man who lets his curiosity overpower him.   Robert Walton expresses his desire for knowledge and wisdom to his newfound friend, Victor Frankenstein.   Frankenstein tells the tale of his encounter with science and his downfall as a direct result of his overbearing ambitions.   Eden is not a place without evil, but rather a place in which evil is not known.   Along with the acquirement of knowledge comes new dangers, for '"'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'"' (Frankenstein, 52).   According to Frankenstein, science only fuels an unnatural desire to pervade secrets that man was never intended to know.   Man is like a ship set off to sea and wrecked by the sheer power of the tempest.   Frankenstein"'"s life demonstrates how nature thwarts men"'"s ambitions and leaves him stranded, far worse off than he would have been had he not tried to overcome nature.  
As the first congruence of Frankenstein and the creation myth, the parallel between Victor Frankenstein and Adam and Eve establishes a theme that manifests itself in the comparison of the characters in Mary Shelley"'"s book and those in the Genesis story.   The separation between human and divine is defined in terms of possession of forbidden knowledge.   In Eden, God creates paradise and places man in it, and he gives Adam...