Fortitude and Frankenstein deal a lot with the creation and destruction of life. Both main characters, Dr. Frankenstein in the short story Fortitude and Victor Frankenstein in the novel Frankenstein, use many different body parts to play with human life trying to create something new. These scientists try to do the impossible by messing with the lives of human beings. As a reader we tend to see Dr. Frankenstein and Victor as "mad scientists." These are two scientists that tried to do something good and it backfired on them and now people believe they are the "mad scientists" of their time. The readers tend to judge the scientists of the outcome of the situation without realizing what good deeds these they were trying to do. Dr. Frankenstein and Victor Frankenstein are not "mad scientists" but instead the great creators of their time.
             Dr. Frankenstein is a bit different than the rest of the doctors. He has only one patient and he attempts secret experiments or "surgeries" that nobody knows of except the reader. Sylvia Lovejoy is his lone patient, which he spends his whole life trying to keep here alive. Dr. Frankenstein has replaced every one of her organs with prosthetic devices, so that now she consists of a head on a tripod, attached by tubes to various machines. Frankenstein controls her emotions and the things that she can do. Dr. Frankenstein didn't make her emotions perfect. Sylvia gets so depressed she calls Dr. Little asking for some cyanide. Dr. Frankenstein is a genius when it comes to keeping Sylvia alive. She will try and take the cyanide but her prosthetic body parts will not allow her to do so.
             "Sylvia's only friend is Gloria, the beautician who comes every day to care for her hair. Gloria is horrified over what Sylvia Lovejoy has become; she sees only a "spark" of the real person remaining, but she knows that the "spark" wants to die."...