Old Body Bodies In Frankenstein

People have a deep interest in bodies, both living and deceased. Throughout society, there are examples of what the good-looking, healthy, and all over ideal body is, with a billion-dollar industry behind it. There is also an enormous industry behind bodies of the deceased: specialists such as doctors, pathologists, and morticians work with corpses on nearly a daily basis. However, interest in dead bodies has grown astonishingly in the past few decades for a variety of reasons.
The idea of the deceased coming back to life has been a major theme in recent movies and television shows such as Zombieland and The Walking Dead. It is not an old concept, though, which is evident in the 1818 novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley in which the male protagonist creates a monster from old body parts. There have been a …show more content…
These creatures are nearly always portrayed as “adversaries to human heroes; lacking in humanity, they are only partially sentient beings whose life-force is incomplete” (Chamberlain and Pearson 7). These movies have grasped the human interest in preserved bodies and turned it into something completely unrealistic. There is great speculation and concern at the treatment of bodies after death. Pathologists, doctors, and other specialists pay close attention to corpses to ascertain causes of death, cures for disease, and a variety of other tests while thinking about the overall health of the population. The public opinion is divided between those who see the tampering of the human body as a moral outrage while others accept it as an artistic and educational experience with the greater good in mind. One of the main mistakes people make about the preservation of dead bodies is that it is an ancient tradition that has gone out of custom. In reality, the practice is performed on most bodies in the United States and other countries around the