In her travels with Piercy Shelley (her 'husband') they encounter the fortress Frankenstein in Germany. (The Franks (the French) were originally from Germany and this was their principle site. In German Frankenstein means 'Rock of the Franks') When they (Mary and Piercy) were there the fortress was being used as a scientific laboratory in electro-statics, a new science at the time. One of the curiosities of electro-statics was its relation to living things. (Frogs legs would jump when jolted with a charge.) This is very much the scene of Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory in the novel.
The movie- the l93l version got into some censorial hot water in an incident where the newly re-animated Monster is going for a walk in the park, encounters a little girl ( played by the child actress Marilyn Harris) I don"t know who starts the ball rolling, the girl thinks, innocently enough he is just a strange looking man, but a fracas occurs and Frankenstein Tosses the girl in the water and she dies! I"m not sure how they handled this on the screen, the attack was unprovoked- watch out for Dirty Old Men in Lincoln Park with staybolts in their necks.. The scene did look like Lincoln Park, by the way. Child abuse- and in this case murder well that rang down (All Stop).
I would imagine the Holy Office ( Vatican censoring arm) would not have looked with favor on it. Frankenstein , aside from adding a phrase to the language- ( it"s a Frankenstein monster!) essentially revived the whole artificial-life modulus of science fiction, and here divorced from occultism such as reincarnation, spells, ghosts. The idea has been with us ever since- and there are branch lines such as mixed human body ( or CNS) parts and robotic frames- such as Validus in Adventure Comics' (Fatal Five) and numerous brain transplants into wild animals by Mad scientists. On a more human level- the idea of artificial life has been juvenilized into, for example Pinocchio, which was writted about fifty years after Frankenstein. To please the moralists, it is always doomed to failure. My guess the churchmen would have rung- Thumbs down! all stop!
They couldn't believe that someone so young (as she wrote it at the age of 19) could have written such a Horror story such as Frankenstein.
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Frankenstein wasn't a robot. He was a human, he was the scientist Albert Frankenstein who made the monster in the gothic novel, 'Frankenstein', the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelly.
Mary Shelly authored Frankenstein. The book was first published in 1818 anonymously in England. In 1823 the book was published again in France with Shelly as the author. A common error is that Frankenstein was the name of the monster, buy it was actually name of the scientist who created the monster.
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Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
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Mary Shelly wrote the novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.
Frankenstein is a novel that was written by Mary Shelley about the scientist Victor Frankenstein.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein created the Creature. The Creature is often mistakenly called Frankenstein, when he is really more accurately called Frankenstein's monster. The novel "Frankenstein" was written by Mary Shelley.
Yes, spelled Mary Shelley. She wrote Frankenstein in 1818- her most famous novel.
Mary Shelley is best known for her novel "Frankenstein" and the monster created by Dr. Frankenstein in the story.
Mary Shelley authored the novel called Frankenstein. Her book was published in 1818, anonymously.
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The idea of Frankenstein the monster comes from Mary Shelley's Gothic novel Frankenstein. However, it is a common misconception that Frankenstein is the monster. In the novel Frankenstein is not the monster instead he is the man who creates the monster.
a monster or large creature