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The young student in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's romance of that name (1818), a classic horror story. The book is also alternatively titled 'The Modern Prometheus'.
Frankenstein made a soulless monster out of corpses from churchyards and dissecting rooms and endued it with life by galvanism, muscle stimulation by electric current.
The tale shows that the creature longed for sympathy but it was shunned by everyone and became the instrument of dreadful retribution on the student who usurped the prerogative of the Creator.
The name Frankenstein is sometimes wrongly used as that of the monster itself, and hence for any monstrous creation.
See Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein, A Study Guide to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Diary of Victor Frankenstein, The Essential Frankenstein; Including the Complete Novel by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism, Boggard, Bogy, Brownie, Fairy, Elf, The Boggart, Casting Black Magic Spells, Commanding Spirits, The Tarot Store, The Chakra Store, Divination & Scrying Tools and Supplies, and The Pyramid Collection.
Sources: (1) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, Harper Collins Publishers; (2) The Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition Handy Volume Edition, Oxford University Press; (3) Rose, Carol, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth, W. W. Norton & Company Publishers; (4) Library of Curious and Unusual Facts, Time-Life Books.
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