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Frankenstein

In Our Time

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Is This a Gothic Novel?

The creature itself is a kind of symbol of the democratic because it's made up from criminals, from the poor. That's another implausibility. We have to swallow that. But they were doing experiments with galvanism. They were taking corpses down that were freshly hanged and applying electricity to them. And there was this kind of reaction, which was terrifying. But they didn't think of the odd burn from graveyards. That's a different thing. Take your fresh corpse down, putting it down. Shoving some electricity to them, you would get the odd twitches,. just like fingernails keep growing. Yeah, I'd say you have to willingly suspend your disbelief if you

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