200 years ago, how did Frankenstein's scientific monster "manufacture"?

Wen ｜ Zheng Yuchuan

Mary Shelley died in 1797 and died in 1851. She lived in an era of a political, social, and scientific revolution. She combined her perception and understanding and transformed all this into her science fiction masterpiece "Franknstein".

The terrible monsters created by Frankenstein have successfully demonstrated their images through modern film and television works. From generation to generation critics, when warning the terrible consequences of new technologies, Frankenstein monsters will be mentioned.

So, when she returned to the background of Mary Shelley's creation of Frankenstein, how did she think of science to the point where science was created to create horror monsters under the restraint of lack of moral ethics rules?

Catherine Hakap, a well -known British popular science writer, discussed the alchemy used by Mary Shelley in "The Science Behind Mary Shelley Behind the Mary Shirley". The sources of technologies such as surgery, natural generation, fuel, physical decomposition, anatomy, transplantation surgery, electrotherapy, resurrection human beings, and how her interpersonal encounter contributed to her unique work.

At the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries, science was widely discussed in the capital of European countries. Scientific communities are very common, and there are scientific lectures for the public. The Royal Research Institute in London even guides the public to participate in scientific experiments. "Scientific equipment, microscope, chemistry and electricity equipment in London stores."

At that time, new scientific discoveries and theories were constantly raised -and the newly born chemistry provided people with a new perspective and even thinking mode for people to understand the world. At that time, scientists also began to collect charge and were developing in the direction of mature power technology. Animal experiments have greatly promoted the expansion of medical and anatomical knowledge.

"In a specialty full of scientific thoughts and few or unlimited restrictions at all, it will inevitably cause obsession with the integration of electric phenomena with human biology." The book wrote. At that time, the private salons, fashion gatherings, and scientific associations were discussing electrotherapy, thinking about the special forces given to life.

Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Shelley eloped in 1814 -at this time Mary was only 17 years old. They once made a castle, named Frankenstein Castle. The castle had received a crazy scientist for a crazy scientist around 1700 and conducted experiments that fused alchemy, medicine and witchcraft.

In 1816, the Shirley couple followed the famous poet Byron in Geneva. According to Mary's future memories, Byron and Shelley often presided over the discussion of philosophy, science, and current affairs all night, among which there are many discussions of life mystery and philosophical theory.

The previous year, the Tanbola volcanic in Indonesia ushered in the most severe outbreak in history, formed a continuous volcanic ash, volcanic fragmented flow, and covering the sun, so that the summer of 1816 became a "summer without summer". Many people were frozen to death in the summer.

It was in this very weird background that on June 16, 1816, Byron proposed himself to write a spiritual story with the Shirley couple, Corceler Ruism, and others. Frankenstein's "Frankenstein" has become the best among them.

The book mentioned that the content of alchemy in Mary Shelley's novels originated from the influence of her father and husband. Of course, alchemy became notorious in the late 18th century and early 19th century, the rise of science -Marie Shelley's content of the use of alchemy is to create a crazy man of Frankenstan, the protagonist of the novel.

Frankenstein's chemical mentor Professor Krampu has a common characteristics with the real chemical giant Lavar: contempt for the old way and value the power of modern science very much.

Frankenstein also learned to understand and biology, showing that the two disciplines have made amazing progress compared to the past in the early 19th century.

Interestingly, organ transplantation appeared in the Book of Frankenstein. This is of course extremely advanced.

The most prominent problem encountered by transplant organs is that the blood must be re -injected, and this is almost inevitable to touch the severe rejection of the human immune system.

Mary Shelley cannot fully understand all this when writing, but she still sets the relevant details in the novel, claiming that Frankenstein can achieve the high degree of compatibility of human organs and even animal tissues inside the human body. Essence

In the novel, Frankenstein created a monster that also includes human tissues, animal tissues, mechanical organizations, etc., then such a complex is a machine, animal or human, or new species? This is a problem that Mary Shelley created for readers to cause controversy. With the advancement of medical technology and the advent of intelligent enhancement equipment, the discussion of this issue has become more and more practical.

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