Comments on: Frankenstein and FMA Analysis

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:53:25 +0000

I’m not familiar with Alchemy. Or Frankenstein for that matter. I know the basics of both, but nothing more.

By: sara

sara — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:40:35 +0000

I don’t know much on the subject of Frankenstein I know the story but beyond I am lost.I may read up on some of it sometime

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:34:26 +0000

omfg - yeh FMA is very thought provoking. I’ve heard of Frankenstein, through reading some Eng Lit past paper questions on it. Most of them center about the evils of furthering science, as presented by M Shelley.

I think I personally sympathize loads with Scar and Lust and the other Homunculi. The Ishbalians view Alchemy like evil, which was synonymous with Christianity back in the days of Galileo whilst Scar’s brother was seeking to discover etc.

a really thought provoking anime and a very interesting post

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:45:49 +0000

I haven’t read Frankenstein yet, but I simply had to read this post because not enough people think that anime and manga can have literary significance.

I don’t agree that Frankenstein has no soul. Without a soul, how could have he been so compassionate? One thing that FMA also touches on is that the concept of the soul isn’t necessarily just attributed with natural human beings. For who can’t say that the homunculi in FMA don’t have souls either? They act just too human, even though they are not. To me, every living “thing” has a soul and the lines between good and evil, because of it, are always blurry. If you’ve been following Naruto, just look at Itachi.

To me, both works outline the boundaries that humanity can mess with. Basically, you don’t mess with life.

By the way, I’ve been sapping your, or someone’s bandwith with the music player. So awesome…

By: Destiny

Destiny — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:12:21 +0000

That’s a very interesting comparison! I totally forgot that Frankenstein also included the science of Alchemy. Haha, your argument was definitely very pointful and amusing. I now must go and get Full Metal Alchemist