stupid question about Mary Shelley's Frankstein

[gotsmack]

I mean wouldn't it have been easier to reanimate a complete original dead body instead of making a body from different pieces of different people?


and I want to hear a reasonable logical answer.

Not some rehash of some bs about literary devices and what building the monster from many sources represents.

 

[Description]

Where would you find a whole, healthy corpse?

 

[gotsmack]

the same place you get the parts. He was a grave robber to get the parts. besides you could always get fresh bodies of the poor who recently died. maybe recently murdered.

 

[ThePresence]

Agreed. Stupid question.

 

[sonambulo]

she wanted specific features from each part. no one corpse had all of those features.

 

[gotsmack]

it wasn't about features, it was about reanimation. Dr. Frankenstein was searching for the secret of life and he needed to test it out. Why would he use not use an already whole body inseatd of making one from parts.

the "features" arguemeent makes no sense



it explains that he could get fresh bodies in chapter 4. Because he would watch fresh bodies decay.

http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/chapter-04.html

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: sonambulo
she wanted specific features from each part. no one corpse had all of those features.

To expand on this further... Dr. Frankenstein had an idea of what he considered the perfect features of a man. He sought to collect those features from various people and put them all together into one being.

It's been some years since I last read it, but if I recall correctly he used a brain of an intellectual person, some part from a thief, the heart of a passionate person, etc.

 

[MDE]

Sparknotes.

 

[badmouse]

It wasn't just about reanimation, it was about creating life and trying to create a living being that was better than normal humans. Things went wrong, of course. That was the moral: if you play God, you'll be punished.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: badmouse
It wasn't just about reanimation, it was about creating life and trying to create a living being that was better than normal humans. Things went wrong, of course. That was the moral: if you play God, you'll be punished.

there you go - in a nutshell

 

[Ausm]

He received a brain from

A. B. Normal



Sysadmin

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: badmouse
It wasn't just about reanimation, it was about creating life and trying to create a living being that was better than normal humans. Things went wrong, of course. That was the moral: if you play God, you'll be punished.

I can't wait until we get to see what God is going to do to us for genetic engineering.

We're like little kids in a vast room filled with all the building blocks of life.

/runs around frantically sticking blocks together