would Frankenstein's monster be considered a zombie because he was made from dead bodies?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

No, according the the legends, the zombie is an animated corpse of a single person. Since the Frankenstein monster was assembled out of various bodies, it cannot be considered a single person, therefore, not a zombie.

Answer 3

No, I don't think so. The zombie is not composed from a variety of bodies, but from one individual person turned into a corpse that lives. It is about a fear of mindlessness, of the loss of the individual personality and the "robotization" of the self.

The most analogous myth creature for Frankenstein's Monster is the golem of Jewish folklore. The golem is made by a powerful rabbi (which for 19th C Shelley became a mad scientist) from clay or whatever other materials, and animated by a supernatural force (in folklore, the Name of God; in Shelley, scientific principle of electricity). The golem may have a will and thought but is commanded by its creator; in many myths, it turns against its creator in some way.

That sounds more like Frankenstein's monster, which is a kind of tragically heroic, romanticized golem.

Answer 4

A zombie is a once human that has had all rational thought removed and returned to one basic need (either hunger or violence) that results in the death or infection of other living humans. Zombies can be of both alive (28 days Later) or once alive (George A. Romero moves).

Frankenstein's monster had rational thought and wasn't acting upon basic instinct or needs. He also wasn't infected by anything or spreading any form of infection (non Voodoo Zombies)

Answer 5

No. It could have been a golem, usually put together from inorganic components and animated by a magic spell. Golems come from Jewish legends. In this case he was formed of flesh and technology took the place of a magic spell.
In Mary Shelley's book however, the creature looked nothing like Hollywoods' version, and could think, speak, and choose for itself. It was a man, a human mind, driven to insanity by rejection, resurrection, and by being made to exist in a body that was composed of parts from different people, in dead flesh made to live again.

Answer 6

Zombies are the re-animated dead, dead as in the whole physical shell. They are usually animated by magical means.

Frankenstein's monster was re-animated flesh that had been pieced together to create the semblance of life, and then animated by science as opposed to magic.

Answer 7

Perhaps. but I believe he is more akin to a flesh golem. But that has problems to because he was caused by science, not magic craft. the story is supposed to make you think if man should create things just because they can (like nuclear weapons).
The monster was pieced together and risen with electricity. I believe he is an all new unique monster class created by Mary Shelly.

Answer 8

I'd say no. Frankenstein's monster was capable of love, hatred, jealousy, revenge, fear, confusion...

Zombies, at leastthe classical notion of zombies, indicate mindless, soulless animated corpses, like puppets on strings of magic.

Answer 9

No, not a zombie. A reanimated collection of parts. Hes living tissue, not rotting flesh.

Answer 10

No. He was animated by electricity and did not crave human flesh. Zombies are animated by a virus and, as we all know, crave the flesh of the living - spreading the virus.

Answer 11

Yes