Here are some key connections to Shelley's cautionary novel. The 13th-century Castle Frankenstein, in the Odenwald, where Johann Dippel (b. 1673), alchemist and grave robber, is said to have ...

Evidence "Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent ... display the human quality of remorse or regret towards the end of the novel. As he visits Victor for the last time, he asks for forgiveness ...

Some believe that the castle, and a scientist who lived there at the time, were the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s book "Frankenstein". Although Shelley never revealed the true inspirations for ...