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Mary Shelly´s novel Frankenstein is the story of a scientist, Dr Victor Frankestein, who builds a creature from dead body parts using electricity. Mary Shelly writes about its birth “ It was  on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony. 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. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle  was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs”.

After he gives life to the creature, Frankenstein is repulsed by his appearance and rejects him causing the creature to feel cut off from society and to embark on a path of destruction. Frankenstein regrets his deeds,” How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?”.

Mary Shelly´s  idea of sparking life into dead body parts sprang from her knowledge of attempts to reanimate the dead by Luigi Galvani who found that frog’s legs twitched as if alive when struck by a spark of electricity. She mentions ‘galvanism’ as an influence in her story in her 1831 preface to the novel.