I think what drove Victor Frankenstein to create Adam, or the monster, was his love for natural philosophy. As Victor had stated on page fifty-one, chemistry had nearly become his sole occupation. He felt ardor whenever read any works that had to do with those subjects, and even he attended many lectures of it. Soon enough, he had joined a college to study even further, but he eventually realized that the lessons didn't help him achieve what he wanted; so he dropped out. After he left, he began thinking more and more of human anatomy, which led him to study human decay and such. Like he had said on page 53, he studied the causes and effects of human decay; staying in vaults and charnel houses days at a time. He also found out how man's "fine form" was treated badly. After all of that he believed that he had figured out the way to reanimate life. So he thought about it for a bit; trying to decide what he wanted to reanimate. He decided he'd reanimate a human, as it is the most detailed and interesting animal of them all. So, he dug up many corpses, finding the perfect body pieces and sewing them together. Finally, he had made the perfect man – no, creature – that stood around 8 feet tall. The galvanization process wasn't explained in detail, but I can only assume that it took a while to set up and perfect. The creature began to breath and frankenstein immediat...
