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      • Victor Frankenstein is a fictional character who first appeared as the titular main protagonist of Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
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  2. Jan 1, 2015 · M ary Shelley is sometimes called the mother of science fiction for concocting the tale of a lab-made man who becomes a monster — but she may have had a real-life alchemist in mind when she...

  3. Some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by 17th-century alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel.

  4. 4 days ago · "I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet." With these words Victor Frankenstein began his account of the adventure that would terrify generations of readers. Although Mary Shelley's classic 1816 tale is usually thought of as a horror story, it is actually a thoughtful fantasy about the consequences of ...

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    Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20.

    • Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
    • 1818
  6. Jul 9, 2020 · The Untold Truth Of The Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein. By Eric Meisfjord Updated: July 9, 2020 10:53 am EST. Wikipedia. Back in the 18th Century — and well before that, for that matter — people asked a pretty fundamental question: What is it about life?

  7. Oct 26, 2018 · Frankenstein: the real experiments that inspired the fictional science. Published: October 26, 2018 5:33am EDT. Giovanni Aldini’s experiments with a human corpse. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA....

  8. Feb 5, 2013 · Mary Godwin Shelley's fantastically mad and flawed character, Victor Frankenstein, bears a striking similarity to Giovanni Aldini: both are scientists bent down a path of forbidden knowledge; both have a streak of showmanship about them; both, they say, begin their ordeals with benign intentions only to be overcome by boastful pride.

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