6. Interesting issues for further research:
• How did a changing understanding of the human body change the societal view of the medical sciences? The development of our understanding of human anatomy was exploding at the time of Frankenstein. Because of this, the novel presents Victor Frankenstein as performing a mixture of real science and pseudoscience with both remarkable and disastrous results. By showing juxtaposing the good and bad of science, Shelley shows an intermittent stage of how societal viewed science at the time, which helps us better understand how science was viewed before the time of her novel and at our present time.
• How does early-childhood circumstances contribute to one’s ability to cope with disaster? In the novel,
• How did a changing understanding of the human body change the societal view of the medical sciences? The development of our understanding of human anatomy was exploding at the time of Frankenstein. Because of this, the novel presents Victor Frankenstein as performing a mixture of real science and pseudoscience with both remarkable and disastrous results. By showing juxtaposing the good and bad of science, Shelley shows an intermittent stage of how societal viewed science at the time, which helps us better understand how science was viewed before the time of her novel and at our present time.
• How does early-childhood circumstances contribute to one’s ability to cope with disaster? In the novel,