We read the craziest novels in IAH 207. It is a course focused on Scottish identities. The professor assigns interesting novels for the class to read. They are all humors, wacky and sometimes dark and depressing all at the same time. The last book I read for the class was Poor Things.
Poor Things is a story about a scientist revitalizing a corpse of a woman. He transplants the brain of the woman’s unborn child into the dead woman drawing many comparisons with the creation of the monster in Frankenstein. The novel is similar to Frankenstein by the mad scientist and Victorian gothic style of writing.
Poor Things is an interesting novel and is written as the memoir of Archibald McCandless, Scottish doctor. The story focuses on Archibald McCandless and a man he works with, Godwin Baxter. Baxter’s character is similar to Dr. Frankenstein. He performs sensational medical procedures. The most outstanding procedure he performs is the creation of life. Baxter brings life to a dead woman. He does so by transplanting her brain with the brain of the fetus she is carrying. He names this creation Bella. Bella is an adult woman with an infant’s mind. Belle changes her name to Victoria later in the story.
By: Brittany McCallum