ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -I soon realized Victor’s actions were not as uncommon as I had previously thought, and even have a name: body snatching. It is defined as the secret removal of corpses from a burial site with the intention of selling the corpses to medical schools for dissection (oxford).

Detailed explanation-2: -Victor Frankenstein collected body parts for his monster through body snatching, a common, though gruesome, practice of the time.

Detailed explanation-3: -Victor explains: “I collected bones from charnel-houses [. . . .] The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials” (54 – 55).

Detailed explanation-4: -What did Victor collect from the graveyard? Bones, organs, and flesh from tombs.