Why is Frankenstein green?

Question

If he is made up of various human body parts, then why is he typically portrayed with green skin?

Answer 1

Movie stuff. If you read the book Frankenstein's monster was perfection. He was extremely intelligent. He was physically ideal. Dr. Frankenstein built him with the best parts of every person he could get. He did not rot, his problem was that he could not age, decay, get old or die. However he was eight feet tall with watery yellow eyes and yellow dead looking skin, and all he wanted was to be loved. Because he was rejected he returned as he received.
The story is both a standard Gothic novel and a heroic tragedy full of pathos.
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/frankenstein/chapter05.htm
The description is at the start of chapter 5.
Wikipedia has a good summary of the story.
This is better to read as a paperback novel, curled up in a chair by the fire with it raining outside.

Answer 2

Frankenstein's the scientist. I think you mean the monster. He's green because Hollywood wanted him that way.
The novel actually has him as almost normal, you know, besides being made by various parts of corpses. In the book, Frankenstein puts him together with painstaking care, there aren't any bolts in his neck and it says nothing about what gave him life either, and the monster actually speaks very eloquently, once he's learned. The entire hollywood image isn't true to the novel.

Answer 3

In the early days of movies (and to a lesser extent television), green makeup was used to give the Monster the right shade of "dead gray" when filmed in black and white.

It was ironically the show "The Munsters" when Mr. Munster was filmed in B+W, but photographed in colour, that led to the cliche of the green Frankenstein's Monster.

Answer 4

Technically, Frankenstein was a normal human man. A scientist. I think you might be thinking of the creature he created, typically known as Frankenstein's monster. and he's green because his bits are rotting away.

Answer 5

Dr. Frankenstein obviously forgot to tell Igor two things: To get a normal brain and to make sure he doesn't get any body parts that have gangrene ;)

Answer 6

Either Irish or related to the Jolly Green Giant. Definitely not in the Smurf family.
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Answer 7

Moldy

Answer 8

becuase it lloks scary and gruesom and gives off an unhuman effect.monsters generally tend to be green.

Answer 9

Whatever he ate made him sick. LOL.

Have a lovely rest of the evening.

Answer 10

He's moldy from parts being in a damp coffin.