I have a visual project that I have to create today for AP English (it's due tomorrow), but I, for the life of me, cannot locate a year of birth and death for Mary Shelley's fictional character Victor Frankstein (as well as his monster).
I've been ransacking Google with almost nothing being found.
From reading the novel the only thing I could pinpoint is that Frankenstein and the monster both died September 11, 17__.
If anyone could point me to a link that could provide the information I seek, or something, I would be very thankful.
Knowing that he died in 17-- places him in 18th century.
Knowing that it talks about him learning galvanic and other electric arts at the age of 15 (Galvanic battery is invented in 1780, we factored in about 2 years after its discovery before F-stein learns it), placing him having been born at least after 1765.
In parts of the book, F-stein refers to a book that was published in 1766 thereby restricting his existence a wee bit.
Knowing that he dropped out of university after having created the monster, he must have been between 19-20 when the monster was made (the novel tells us he left for uni at 17); were he 21, he could have graduated rather than drop out.
Knowing that chasing the monster around the continent means that in his final 5 years or so, he must be young enough to travel long distances on foot.
Knowing that Mary Shelley was born in 1798, one might assume that this date could play some relevance in the book.
With all that put together, having F-stein live from 1767-1798 (making him only 31 years of age at death) allows for all of the above to occur. The monster, similarly, would be ~1786-1798.
I hate to point it out to you, but you may get points off for that. Mary Shelley intentionally left the dates vague to promote the idea of mystery and gothic themes, and to make it so you couldn't pinpoint right when he lived. Was it a wide-themed subject where they said to give dates and you just chose Frankenstein, or did your teacher actually say "Give the dates for the birth and death of Victor Fankenstein"?
While symbolically, yes, she left the dates off intentionally (talk about blatantly ****ing obvious), the dates being left off doesn't really hold true today as much as it did when the book was first published.
In either case, birth and death dates were a requirement of the assignment.
This may be very late, but after seeing the new Frankenstein movie, it peeked my interest, and i stumbled upon this forum.
Johann Konrad Dippel Was the name of a German pietist theologian, alchemist and physician, that inspired Shelly's Frankenstein.
Johann Conrad Dippel (August 10, 1673 – April 25, 1734).
Dippel was born at Castle Frankenstein near Mühltal and Darmstadt
“Dippel was convinced that he could bring a body back to life by injecting it with a concoction of blood and bone, often made from both mammal and human corpses,” writes Miranda Seymour in her biography, Mary Shelley. “In Mary’s novel, Victor Frankenstein would use animal bones to help manufacture his monstrous creature.”
While Dippel reportedly claimed to have found a way to live to the age of 135, he himself fell far short of the mark. He died at 61 and became part of a repertoire of local legends, Seymour writes, including “gruesome tales of a cannibal monster who, in times long past, used the grim little castle as his headquarters.”.
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I've been ransacking Google with almost nothing being found.
From reading the novel the only thing I could pinpoint is that Frankenstein and the monster both died September 11, 17__.
If anyone could point me to a link that could provide the information I seek, or something, I would be very thankful.
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Quite.
But considering it is one of the criteria for this project, turning it in without said dates might not be the best idea.
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Wikipedia shows up extensively in Google you know. *cough cough*
Quite.
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With a little help from Senori, we guestimated the years to a hopefully generally accurate set.
(1767-1798, in case you're wondering)
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I am just curious, how exactly did you go about this guestimating??
Knowing that it talks about him learning galvanic and other electric arts at the age of 15 (Galvanic battery is invented in 1780, we factored in about 2 years after its discovery before F-stein learns it), placing him having been born at least after 1765.
In parts of the book, F-stein refers to a book that was published in 1766 thereby restricting his existence a wee bit.
Knowing that he dropped out of university after having created the monster, he must have been between 19-20 when the monster was made (the novel tells us he left for uni at 17); were he 21, he could have graduated rather than drop out.
Knowing that chasing the monster around the continent means that in his final 5 years or so, he must be young enough to travel long distances on foot.
Knowing that Mary Shelley was born in 1798, one might assume that this date could play some relevance in the book.
With all that put together, having F-stein live from 1767-1798 (making him only 31 years of age at death) allows for all of the above to occur. The monster, similarly, would be ~1786-1798.
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While symbolically, yes, she left the dates off intentionally (talk about blatantly ****ing obvious), the dates being left off doesn't really hold true today as much as it did when the book was first published.
In either case, birth and death dates were a requirement of the assignment.
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Johann Konrad Dippel Was the name of a German pietist theologian, alchemist and physician, that inspired Shelly's Frankenstein.
Johann Conrad Dippel (August 10, 1673 – April 25, 1734).
Dippel was born at Castle Frankenstein near Mühltal and Darmstadt
“Dippel was convinced that he could bring a body back to life by injecting it with a concoction of blood and bone, often made from both mammal and human corpses,” writes Miranda Seymour in her biography, Mary Shelley. “In Mary’s novel, Victor Frankenstein would use animal bones to help manufacture his monstrous creature.”
While Dippel reportedly claimed to have found a way to live to the age of 135, he himself fell far short of the mark. He died at 61 and became part of a repertoire of local legends, Seymour writes, including “gruesome tales of a cannibal monster who, in times long past, used the grim little castle as his headquarters.”.