Galvinists, Mary Shelley and Cloning- New ways of 'Creating Humans'

Introduction "Edward Scissorhands" is, if you understand the movie, actually a very serious movie reflecting on how bad some neighbourhoods are at accepting different people into their closely knit society. Edward Scissorhands is created by his 'inventor', who builds his different body parts and organs and at the end, dies of old age just when he was about to attach Edward's hands onto him when Edward still had hands of scissors. Edward is created much …

…the main subjects of Mary Shelley's novel and a huge influence to modern scientists today and in the past. Ironically as it seems, many budding Galvinists actually got there ideas from Mary Shelley! Modern Scientists have transferred Galvanism into hospitals, where electricity plays a big part in starting a heart back up. Bibliography: www.wikipedia.org http://www.novelguide.com/frankenstein/themeanalysis.html http://www.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/galvani.htm Frankenstein BY Mary Shelley