Charles Liu

That's right.

Trying to be a woman.

trying to give birth to life.

And so the combination of just defying nature and defying God caused Mr. Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein, to lose control of the monster, and the monster winds up becoming this bad thing.

Of course.

You weren't supposed to mess with people.

Oh, so they got a third party to steal instead of him.

Well, that came later, sort of in the mid-late 1800s.

And so do you remember the exact year of the 1817, 1818, I think is the first edition.

Okay.

So Ben Franklin was active with electricity.

By then Ben Franklin had already figured out plenty of electricity.

And at that time, guys like Galvani, right?

Alessandro Volta.

These guys had started attaching electrical connections to like frog's legs and things like that and made them twitch.

Even at that time in the 1800s, although folks like Benjamin Franklin had already figured out that lightning was electricity, you still had most of the people in Europe and America thinking that lightning was an act of God.

that it was the divine something.

And you can go back to the ancient Romans and the ancient Greeks who thought that Zeus or Jupiter was throwing thunderbolts down at us.

But now that we know that it's lightning and so forth, you just kind of remove that monstrosity of Frankenstein being unnatural, was perfectly natural for that to happen.

Another idea of physics eventually informing monstrosity.