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PROFESSOR #1: Frankenstein, we find your ideas shocking, dangerous, and an affront to all that is moral and decent. PROFESSOR #2: Only a fool or a heretic would dare trifle with life and death as you propose. PROFESSOR #3: Your obsession with discredited charlatans and their dubious science is pure folly. PROFESSOR #4: The University will not stand for these outlandish and unauthorized experiments of yours. PROFESSOR #5: It is complete madness! ALL: It is... MADNESS... FOLLY... INSANITY! PROFESSOR #1: The dead have nothing to say to you. CONDEMNED MAN: I CURSE THE DAY THAT I WAS BORN INTO A WORLD SO BLACK WITH HATE I'LL GLADLY LEAVE THIS LIFE OF SCORN AND SEEK MY PEACE BEFORE THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN'S GATE I HAVE MY SINS LIKE ANY MAN BUT NONE MORE DARK THAN YOURS IF IT IS I YOU CHOOSE TO DAMN INNOCENT BLOOD WILL STAIN YOUR HANDS FOREVER MORE EXECUTIONER: For crimes against the people the magistrate of Ingolstadt hereby sentences you to be hanged by the neck until dead, this sixteenth day of September, Seventeen Hundred and... MOB: YOUR KIND HAS NO PLACE BUT THE GRAVE NOT EVEN A SOUL THAT CAN BE SAVED SOON YOU WILL KNOW ETERNAL PAIN CONDEMNED MAN: YOUR KIND HAS NO PLACE BUT THE GRAVE NOT EVEN A SOUL THAT CAN BE SAVED SOON YOU WILL KNOW ETERNAL PAIN WHO DARES TO ACT AS GOD? MOB: NO MAN WOULD DARE TO ACT AS GOD! VICTOR: ANOTHER SOUL... ANOTHER LIGHT ANOTHER FLAME EXTINGUISHED ONE MOMENT HERE, AND THEN IT'S GONE A HEART IS BEATING, THEN IS DONE THE DIFFERENCE BARELY IS DISTINGUISHED THE ANCIENT RIDDLE... WHAT THEN IS LIFE? WHAT IS IT'S FLEETING ESSENCE? THE GREATEST MINDS HAVE SOUGHT THE KEY THAT COULD UNLOCK THIS MYSTERY AND I ALONE POSSESS IT WHAT I HAVE FOUND WAS THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE AND ONLY SPOKEN OF IN FEAR BUT IF I SHOW THEM THE IMPOSSIBLE -- CREATE A LIFE -- THEN ALL MUST HEAR! MOB: LET GOD'S WILL BE DONE VICTOR: THE GAUNTLET WAITS... IT CALLS TO ME CRYING DESTINY'S DEMANDS MOB: MAKE HIM PAY! VICTOR: THE VERY FATE OF ALL MANKIND... MOB: FINISH WHAT'S BEGUN! VICTOR: RESTS IN THIS MIND... AND IN THESE HANDS MOB: UPON THIS JUDGEMENT DAY CONDEMNED MAN: OH MY CREATOR, CLAIM ME NOW GRANT TO ME THIS NIGHTMARE'S END AND IF NO MAN SHALL MOURN FOR ME I'LL TRUST IN YOU A-MEN EXECUTIONER: Who will tend to the remains?...I say... who claims this body?! VICTOR: I do.