... out to solve. In 1803, Giovanni Aldini used electric shock to induce muscle spasms in the corpse of a criminal hanged at Newgate. According to Tropp, "As in Galvini's earlier experiments with the legs of frogs, the momentary twitching induced by the current of electricity was mistaken for a short-lived spark of life" (54). It was widely held that due to such seemingly successful experiments it ... it to man, he violated the divine order and thereby created a world where men might defy the gods. When Victor Frankenstein steals a spark of being from nature to infuse into the lifeless thin...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... others as beautiful, such as pearly white teeth and black flowing hair. Yet the being that stands before Frankenstein is ghastly. Again Victor's use of diction serves to support his point of view, this time to illustrate the devastation of the results of his experiment. With the sudden spark of life, the creature was transformed from a prospect of beautiful immortality into a "catastrophe", a ... "wretch" and finally, a "monster" (35). When Frankenstein observes the results of his creation, he ignores his responsibility and abandons his new being, falsifying ... not go on without him. ...

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