Name: 死体を蘇生させるな!フランケンシュタイン 第1部クラッシュコース文学205 (Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1: Crash Course Literature 205)
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Hi! I’m John Green, this is Crash Course Literature, and It’s alive!

Mr. Green? Mr. Green? That’s my favorite part of the movie…

No. No. No. No. Me From The Past don’t you dare. That line is not in the book. And Frankenstein

is the doctor not the monster. Also, there is no Igor in the book or in the movie for

that matter. His name was Fritz. Let’s move on!

So, way before you actually read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, you probably heard about it...

I mean the novel is almost 200 years old now, but we can’t seem to get away from its story and its ideas.

Its been adapted into plays, and books, and comics, and more than 100 movies — from your

classic Boris Karloff picture to “Blackenstein,” “Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster,”

“The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein”...

And of course 2013’s “I, Frankenstein” which has a resounding 4% fresh on RottenTomatoes.com

By the way I wanted to blow Crash Course’s entire budget on licensing “The Erotic Rites

of Frankenstein” but Stan said we couldn’t!

Anyway, after all those experiences with he story, reading the novel is kind of surprising because

it opens not with the story of Victor Frankenstein, but with a series of letters from an Arctic explorer.

Also, the monster, who as previously noted is not named Frankenstein, he doesn’t have

a name that’s really important actually, but he’s a pretty articulate guy. I mean

he reads “Plutarch’s Lives” and “Paradise Lost.” He’s better read than most of us.

So genre wise, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is kind of a triple threat. I mean it’s

often recognized as the first work of science fiction. It’s one of the greatest horror

novels ever. And it’s often called the greatest capital “R” Romantic novel.

I mean like Lord Byron romantic not Danielle Steele romantic. You know the idea that like

emotions like awe and terror and horror - the modern emotions - can be the center of an

aesthetic experience. Also, Percy Shelley romantic which reminds me to talk about Mary Shelley’s biography.

Mary Shelley’s father was an anarchist author, and her mother was Mary Walstonecraft, a famous

early feminist who died just 11 days after Mary was born.

Her mother’s death was a huge influence on Mary Shelley and if you’re into biographical

readings, then you can look at Frankenstein as a story of a monstrous and disastrous birth.

Anyway, when Mary was 14, Percy Shelley, one of the great lyric poets of the age, came

to visit her father after being thrown out of Oxford for writing a pamphlet on atheism.

Percy Shelley was already married, but two years later, when Mary was just 16, they eloped

to the continent along with Mary Shelley’s stepsister Claire Clairmont… are these names made up?

By then Mary was already pregnant with their first child. So, it’s 16 and Pregnant, the

So a couple of years later... oh it must be time for the Open Letter 'cause my desk just moved.

An open letter to Percy Shelley’s heart. Metaphorically, you were complex.

I mean after you fell in love with 16 yr old Mary Shelley you repeatedly threatened to

commit suicide even though you were already married to a different person named Harriet.

After leaving Harriet for this teenager, Mary, Harriet would go on to commit suicide while

And another woman who was in love with you, Mary Shelley’s half-sister Fanny also committed suicide.

But I want to talk about your literal heart Percy Shelley, because when you drowned in

a sailing accident, your friends burned your body and were stunned to see that your heart

did not burn. Somebody grabbed it from the fire, it traded hands a few times, it ended

up with Mary. And it was eventually buried with Mary and Percy’s son 67 years after Percy died.

And some people think the reason the heart didn’t burn is because Percy Shelley suffered

from calcification of the heart which turned his heart almost into a bone-like structure.

In short, you were literally, hard-hearted. Best wishes, John Green.

So a couple years later Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Claire Clairmont, Lord Byron (with

whom Claire was having an affair -- although who wasn’t having an affair with Lord Byron),

and Byron’s doctor were all hanging out in Geneva.

And despite all the lakes and chocolate, Geneva was pretty boring, and also the weather was

unrelentingly terrible so there was nothing to do all day except sit around reading creepy German ghost stories.

So naturally enough, a novel-writing contest ensued.

It was basically like the most productive NaNoWriMo of all time. The doctor wrote a

story that would later be a huge influence on Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” and Mary

She was still a teenager. It’s just not fair! Anyway, in the introduction to the 1831

edition of the novel, Mary Shelley explained, “How I, then a young girl, came to think

of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea.” She wanted to write a story that

would “speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror.”

The idea that art could awaken that horror and awe and connect us to the broader natural

But she couldn’t figure out how to turn ideas into like a plot until she stayed up

late one night listening to Percy Shelley and Byron discuss new developments in electricity and the

possibility of the dead being brought back to life. That night she went to bed and had a terrible waking dream.

She wrote, “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put

together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working

of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion.

Uggh. it’s so creepy. Anyway, that’s Mary Shelley’s story of the creation of Frankenstein.

Let’s talk about now what she created, the upshot of which is: Don’t re-animate corpses.

Alright, Let’s go to the Thought Bubble

So the novel opens with with the aforementioned boring letters that arctic explorer Walton

sends to his sister in England. Walton is sailing toward the North Pole when he sees

The man is Victor Frankenstein. Once upon a time, he was a nice Swiss boy with a couple

of younger brothers, a dead mother, a best friend, and a cute cousin. But then he went

to university and took organic chemistry and became obsessed with reanimating the dead

which is why you should never go to college. Just kidding, go to college.

So eventually Victor figures out how to make dead flesh live and he assembles this huge

creature out of dead bodies and farm animal parts , hooks up the juice, and animates it.

Only he’s so horrified that he runs away and conveniently develops a bad case of brain fever.

Rejected by his creator, the monster wanders into the wilderness where he seeks shelter

and then eventually learns to read and write.

The monster returns to Victor and he’s like “look I’ve done so much book learning”

but that doesn’t convince Victor that the monster is not a monster. So the monster becomes

a real monster. He kills Victor’s youngest brother and then when Victor rejects the monster’s

request for a mate, the monster kills Victor’s best friend and then his cousin -- to whom Victor

is getting married, because, you know, that’s what they did back then.

The creature flees to the Arctic and then Victor pursues him which is how he ends up

on Walton’s ship where he dies. The creature, who they’ve found, is so distraught that

he says he’s going to die too. And then Walton has to turn the ship around and never

achieve his sublime goal, and everything’s terrible. Because this is what happens when

you major in Organic Chemistry like my brother, Hank, instead of something healthy and good

Thanks Thought Bubble. So Frankenstein is fundamentally a story about creation, about

new and terrifying ways to bring light and life into the world. And in that sense, it’s

loosely tied to two other creation stories, which Mary Shelley acknowledged in the text.

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