In the novel Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley, there is a moment when Victor Frankenstein, a student of the sciences and a
curious researcher, witnessed the effect of lightning during a storm. In this case it
was an oak tree: A huge, strong, and majestic tree. It was amazing to Victor
Frankenstein to picture something so powerful be destroyed by a force of nature that is
otherwise invisible until it touches something-
electricity.
Ever since then he began his obsession with
electricity and intended to experiment with different things under the premise that
electricity may be what brings something to life: That it is a very strong and powerful
force not to be reckoned with, but that can be controlled and used. Hence, this was the
accelerator to his posterior obsession with creating life.
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