The Science of Frankenstein

By: Cody Thomas, Amanda Sales, Gabi Vincent, and Aaron

Rosenberger

What is Galvanism?

Galvanism- is a direct current of electricity especially when produced by chemical action

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Was a non-living thing that came to life by electricity.

What is Frankenstein

Frankenstein is considered the first novel to be the first legitimate example of the genre we now call science fiction.

Is Frankenstein Science Fiction or an Autobiography?

If Frankenstein is an autobiography consider the essential elements. Each is certainly drawn from Mary's life: the motherless child; the father rejecting the child; a grieving mother mourning for a dead child; a university student conducting wild experiments. For it to be Science fiction

Real Science!

On January 26, 1781, while dissecting a frog near a static electricity machine, an assistant to Galvani, touched a scalpel to a nerve in its leg, and the frog's leg jumped. Galvani repeated this and several other experiments, observing the same violent muscle spasms.

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