Frankenstein Lives!
Victor Frankenstein never said, “It’s alive! Alive” in Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. That line was a fabrication of Mel Brooks in the movie, “Young Frankenstein.” And the monster created by the creepy Mary Shelley wasn’t Frankenstein but rather the abominable wretch he cooked up in his lab.
Regardless of its origins, the name “Frankenstein” is today generally descriptive not of a titan, a prometheus, but of any grotesque, inhuman, artificial, scientific invention, such as the 155 human-animal hybrids secretly hatched in British laboratories.
Allegedly created by scientists in search of cures for various human diseases–a purpose that has been dispured– the results give rise to speculation as to whether the cures are worse than the diseases.
As a British newspaper reports, ”Figures seen by the Daily Mail show that 155 ‘admixed’ embryos, containing both human and animal genetic material, have been created since the introduction of the 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act. This legalised the creation of . . . ‘cybrids’, in which a human nucleus is implanted into an animal cell; and ‘chimeras’, in which human cells are mixed with animal embryos.”
Victor Frankenstein would be proud. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5090)
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