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    Frankenstein as Science Fiction

    quizzical talks of the Science Fiction as something that 'is


    Cuddon
    Her Life, Her
    classifiable'. But Anne Mellor in Mary Shelley:
    not easily clas

    msters tries outlining


    a nition of sorts for the genre of
    Her
    Fidion,
    distinctive churacteristics of the
    Fiction by chalkimg out threc
    Science science fiction:
    to her three things could nmark a text as
    same.
    According
    and its study. Secondly, it
    have somiething to do with science
    first, it has to scientific development could have
    to the effects that
    should look forward
    thereby sketching a Utopia or Dystopia of fantastical
    in the future, take the
    it should covertly or overtly have a on
    imagination. Thirdly, scientific developments.
    humanistic aspects of such
    ethical, moral and and pioneering
    Frankenstein as a novel is positively one of the best
    science fiction as it fits the bill in
    almost all
    works in the global oeuvre
    of
    Mellor pinpointed.
    the criteria that
    research in a number ways.Victor,
    of
    Frankenstein is related to scientific
    into scientiflic study which ends up in his
    the pivotal protagonist is deeply a w e s o m e and awful
    all
    creation of life which is
    experimentation with the the
    above the puerile zest for
    the Philosopher's Stone and
    at once. Rising trend setting.
    are major and
    out for things that
    Elixir of life,Victor reaches
    Victor had been immensely
    from childhood,
    He makes life. Right the lookout for
    and its mysteries. He was forever on
    interested in science He records his
    and abnormal phenomena.
    explanations of normal
    cathedra:
    fascination with science
    ex

    n e w preceptors
    I entered with the greatest
    of my elixir of life; but
    Under the guidance stone and the
    philosophers
    diligence into the
    search ofthe attention. Wealth was an
    inferior
    obtained my undivided disease
    the latter soon
    ifl could banish
    would attend the discovery
    object, but what glory invulnerable to any but a
    violent
    render man
    the human frame and
    from
    death!

    his insatiable thirst


    for knowledge:
    Again, he
    recounts

    was with us, and...he


    en-
    research in natural philosophy
    ...a manof great ofa theory which he
    had formed o n the subject
    of
    tered onthe explanation me.All
    which was at once new and astonishing
    to
    electricicy and galvanism, Magnus,
    into the shade Cornelius Agrippa,Albertus
    that he said chrew greatly mind l be-
    and Paracelsus, the lords of my
    imagination;...In this
    mood of
    243

    took myself to the mathematics and the branches of study appertaining to


    that science as being built upon secure foundations, and so worthy of my
    consideration'.

    This zeal found direction when he landed up in Ingolstadt University


    and came under the tutelage of Professors like M. Krempe and MWaldman.
    M.Waldman opened Victor's eyes towards Chemistry and the marvels off
    the biological science:

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