Return The Genie To The Bottle In Frankenstein

"Frankenstein" and Our Age: Who Can Return the Genie to the Bottle?

"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851) is one of the main landmarks in the history of English literature which was written in January 1818, about 200 years back. It has a pioneer touch as it handles a universal subject which is the limits of human knowledge and actions, and the terrible consequences of tampering with the natural principles and the divine plan. For this purpose, it has employed elements of science fiction with gothic novel, which are featured by the remote and the supernatural. It took about 20 years for "Frankenstein" to have the attention it deserved by critics and the public, but since then many films, plays and concerts were made about

Mary Shelley seemed to be unaware of the scientific bases for batching corpses together in order to create a new creature, and then to animate it. So in the fourth chapter of the novel, we find the creature vaguely standing beside the university student, Victor Frankenstein, who got terrified and escaped. The creature is very ugly “ formed into a hideous and gigantic nature.” It is very tall, (eight feet) high, proportionately large, yellow eyes and his skin barely conceals the muscle tissues, and blood vessels, as the creator faces “ difficulty in replicating the minute parts of the human body.” So it was rejected and feared by society. The creature himself got scared when he saw his face in the

After spending weeks at sea, he found Victor Frankenstein floating on ice near death. Walton’s series of letters to his sister retells Victor’s tragic story. Grown up in Geneva, Switzerland with the orphan Elizabeth adopted by his family, Victor is a clever young man, quick to learn and delights in the sciences. So he goes to the University of Ingolstadt in order to study science there. His mother dies of scarlet fever, while Elizabeth is saved, shortly before he departs to the university. At the university, he meets Professors M. Krempe and M. Waldsman, both get him involved in their studies and he impresses not only his mate students, but teachers alike. As a result of his researches, he devises a plan to re-create and to reanimate a dead body using a combination of chemistry, alchemy and electricity to fulfill his ambition. Once the creature is created, Victor starts to feel guilty of creating a new life and ultimately exceeding his limits as a human being. Victor runs away in fear and disgust of his creation, and from that moment his tragedy and torture continue until his death. The monster wanders the countryside, while Victor seeks solace in a tavern near the university. His father writes him about the murder of his youngest brother William by an unknown assailant, which marks death of everything innocent and noble. Justine Moritz, the housekeeper is falsely