he has no social life? duh?!
2006-11-03 17:18:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
PLease note that Victor Frankenstein is the creator of the monster
2006-11-03 17:36:49 · update #1
PLease note that Victor Frankenstein is the creator of the monster..therefore Frankenstein is actually a real human being.
2006-11-03 17:37:20 · update #2
I don't know if Frankenstein is so much obsessed and amazed with electricity as he is obsessed, period. At a young age, Victor is fascinated by the works of alchemists like Agrippa and Magnus even though he's told their ideas of creating gold from base metal or discovering an elixir of life are stuff of the past. Then he sees a tree destroyed by lightning, and his father teaches him about electricity...a 'modern science'. Once he's in school, Victor pursues the sciences further, but never really forgets the alchemists.
As early as the 1700's, Galvani had shown muscles and nerves produce electricity and can be stimulated by it. Oddly enough, we are never told what discovery it is Victor makes that allows him to generate life or how he gives that to his creature. The novel just says he gathers his tools about him to infuse his creation with a 'spark' of being. We have to assume that spark is electricity and that Victor has found his elixir of life.
2006-11-04 05:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Mary Shelley wrote the novel, electricity was a reasonably new concept and the world was only just discovering new uses and properties of it. By using electricity to animate the monster, Dr Frankenstein was demonstrating the power of technology and learning over nature.
2006-11-04 17:50:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jim T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Victor Frankenstein was obsessed with many things including electricity. I would also venture forth that he was obsessed with himself...or his idea of himself. He got it into his head that he was a genius--an absolute genius capable of creating life. Talk about a 'god complex' wanting to create life from death...he had some major issues going on! It was his obsession that made HIM the monster and not the nameless monster who was really quite human in nature.
2006-11-04 03:55:06 · answer #3 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...and it's a scientific fact that electricity facilitates cellular reproduction and other regenerative processes in the body. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a story about humanity--one of my favorites.
2006-11-03 17:30:52 · answer #4 · answered by magnamamma 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Victor was obsessed with electricity for one real reason. He belived that electricity was life. He used it to restore life to his creation and in so doing it made him one with GOD.
2006-11-04 04:05:04 · answer #5 · answered by ijustjohnny 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was the source of his life although he had a creator.. We all want to go back to that first moment of inception.
2006-11-03 18:50:45 · answer #6 · answered by nquizzitiv 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's how he was given life. Through a bolt of lightning, aka electricity.
2006-11-03 17:20:52 · answer #7 · answered by hibiskiss85 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because it helped to create him. Right, his social life is poor indeed. I will email him about MySpace and chat rooms...
2006-11-03 17:24:30 · answer #8 · answered by Mistress in Chains 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He wants to be " Ben Franklin " for Halloween.
2006-11-03 17:34:58 · answer #9 · answered by Daisy P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋