De que é feito o monstro de Frankenstein no romance original?

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Esta questão começou como uma discussão nos comentários de

A idéia popular é que o monstro é feito de pedaços de cadáveres costurados juntos, mas ... dois argumentos contra isso:

(1) Citação do ch. 4:

Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour. I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man.

Peças de costura são igualmente fáceis / difíceis para humanos e animais.

(2) A ideia de várias partes do corpo é incompatível com a trama subseqüente:

Frankenstein destroys the second (female) creature because he don't want a race of monsters. It's really difficult making a sterile creature from pieces of corpses?

Relação relevante: De que é feito o monstro de Frankenstein? Além disso, o romance em Gutenberg.org.

EDIT para esclarecimento:

A citação (1) mais a pesquisa anterior de "... a decadência natural e corrupção do corpo humano." sugere algum tipo de processo "taratoembriológico" guiado a partir de matérias-primas mais simples que as partes do corpo. Algum tipo de ressurreição ao estilo Hellraiser não mágica.

Relevante ch. 20 citação para (2):

Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?

Se Frankenstein não quiser isso,

making a female monster without an uterus is trivially easy sewing parts, while arguably impossible by "taratoembriological" process.

    
por Martín-Blas Pérez Pinilla 10.02.2017 / 11:40

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Por todas as contas parece que os outros aqui trataram muito bem a primeira metade desta questão e decidiram como a criação / monstro / "filho" de Frankenstein foi construída. (Por conveniência, usarei aqui o apelido popular de “Adam” para me referir ao ser criado). No entanto, parece que eu ou eles interpretaram mal os medos do Dr. Victor e sua posterior troca com Adam.

É verdade que o texto mostra que Victor claramente temia que suas ações pudessem permitir que seres mais inumanos e quase invencíveis viessem ao mundo. No entanto, ele nunca disse especificamente que faria isso através da reprodução biológica. Este texto é diretamente antes de Victor destruir a segunda criação:

“I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the daemon at the casement. A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me. Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress and claim the fulfilment of my promise.”
*quoted from the Guttenberg e-text of the book located here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm

Eu sempre li isso não apenas como uma afirmação de que Adam estava rastreando Victor, mas que ele estava estudando o processo pelo qual seu tipo é feito. Lembra como ele aprendeu a falar? Isso significaria que o ato de criar um companheiro estéril para Adam poderia tê-lo permitido fazer mais.

E mesmo se ela fosse infértil, Victor não se sentia confortável em haver um Adão, muito menos dois. Mesmo que Victor pudesse ter garantido que seu número nunca iria além de dois, não havia garantia de que ela sozinha não seria como um demônio e um monstro para a humanidade.

    
10.02.2017 / 20:42

O 'monstro' é composto de várias partes do corpo, sejam aquelas coletadas do cemitério ou aquelas que foram armazenadas para uso futuro. O bom doutor faz referências repetidas a seus "materiais" , sendo esta sua própria expressão tímida para as partes do corpo que ele está colhendo dos cadáveres.

Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being. As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.

Frankenstein: Chapter 5

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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? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.

Frankenstein: Chapter 5

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I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head. Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.

Frankenstein: Chapter 19

Se tal coisa é possível, você esqueceu de adicionar a segunda parte da sua citação, na qual o bom Doutor nos informa sobre sua proeza crescente como cirurgião ...

...but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man.

The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success. Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being. As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.

Frankenstein: Chapter 4

    
10.02.2017 / 11:50

Parece, de fato, ser um fragmento humano.

It was indeed but a passing trance, that only made me feel with renewed acuteness so soon as, the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I returned to my old habits. I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separate from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation......The dissecting room and the slaughterhouse furnished many of my materials;
-Frankenstein, Chapter 4

    
10.02.2017 / 11:50