Frankenstein assignment

1. Who were Mary Shelley’s parents?
Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.

2. What elements influenced Mary’s story? Name 4.
- Boundary between life and death
- Using electricity to restore life to the recently dead.
- The drowning of Percy Shelley's first wife.
- Her dream about her dead infant daughter.

3. Who started the system of blood transfusion?
James Blundell

4. What is a ‘Galvanized’ corpse?
A reanimated corpse, by jolting muscles with sparks from an electrostatic machine.

5. “But the process of resolving both issues …”; Which two issues are meant here?
The ethical or spiritual questions and the human urge to know and understand problems from that knowledge.

6. What are these 2 unresolved risks?
The transmittal of animal viruses into humans & the moral dangers in usurping the 'natural' order.

7. In your own words: What WAS permitted, and what NOT?
The cloning of human embryos was permitted for research, but the implantation of clones into a woman's uterus wasn’t permitted.

8. What are the differences between the Celluloid and the written version of Frankenstein?
the original Frankenstein was an articulate creature, the reshaping from Universal Studios was crude and unformed.

9. According to the 1st paragraph, the Romantic Movement is characterized by which 5 key notions?
Gothicism partial, innovation, spontaneity, freedom of thought and expression, an idealisation of nature and the belief of living in an age of 'new beginnings and high possibilities'.

10. What do Science Fiction and the story of Frankenstein have in common, according to the last paragraph?
The marvels of discovery and achievement that may result from future developments.