The novel, Frankenstein, was born out of what Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley described as a “waking dream”, one she had while falling asleep. Under the induced hallucinations of the hypnagogic state, she envisioned a pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. In her classic 1823 novel, Shelley writes about Victor Frankenstein, a fledgling science student who embarks on an experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany he invents a secret formula to place life into dead organics. Shelly portrays Frankenstein’s creature as a liminal being in both the natural and supernatural and is a being that is “on the brink of life and death, which appears
