In Shelley's original work, Frankenstein's monster was created by means of Alchemy that are not detailed in the book. In popular media, though, Frankenstein's creature is often brought to life by being stitched together out of various organic parts and brought to life by lightning.
How to bring inanimate objects to life
In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein was a student of chemistry and life sciences, perhaps in training to become a doctor. His role as the prototypical mad scientist developed through film and comic book interpretations of the story. Learn more about Frankenstein and his monster by visiting my website, SusanTylerHitchcock.com, and reading my book, Frankenstein: A Cultural History.
Victor Frankenstein made his creature (which, by the way, is nameless) by putting together body parts taken from corpses. He then used the power of electricity to bring it to life.
The book doesn't say. The movies have depicted enormous Static-electric generators, a kite flying in a lightening storm, and electric eels.
Dr. Frankenstein is "Bewildered by the creature's story."
The monster was not Frankenstein, the Doctor was. Doctor Frankenstein created Frankenstein's monster.
He is repulsed
How to bring inanimate objects to life
The long series of Frankenstein films are about the attempts of a Doctor Frankenstein to create life from the body parts all put together in the form of a man.
The mad doctor"s aim, of course , was to create artificial life.
By trying to bring the body back to life, Dr. Frankenstein tried to transgress.
Detached and objective. He thinks of them merely as "bodies deprived of life."
Frankenstein, the name often erroneously attributed to The Monster, or The Creature, is actually the doctor who created him. Victor Frankenstein is a young brilliant doctor from Switzerland (NOT Transylvania) who becomes fixated with the idea of creating life in the laboratory. Although the movies would have you believe that he used lightning and a lot of weird apparatus, the novel is vague about the methods, and even the materials used.
That is a defibrillator.
In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein was a student of chemistry and life sciences, perhaps in training to become a doctor. His role as the prototypical mad scientist developed through film and comic book interpretations of the story. Learn more about Frankenstein and his monster by visiting my website, SusanTylerHitchcock.com, and reading my book, Frankenstein: A Cultural History.
Victor Frankenstein made his creature (which, by the way, is nameless) by putting together body parts taken from corpses. He then used the power of electricity to bring it to life.
The book doesn't say. The movies have depicted enormous Static-electric generators, a kite flying in a lightening storm, and electric eels.