Someone answered this before on another board, but I forgot what he said.

Why did Frankenstein use different body parts instead of a whole cadaver? It's funny too that all those different parts happened to be symmetrical.

Also, wouldn't the monster have smelled terrible?

Wasn't Frankenstein conceived by an 18 year old girl decades before modern germ or cell theory?

Yes, but the story has been remade dozens of times. I'm surprised they haven't added an explanation.

You're asking how a movie can explain something science cannot. It's a damn fictional story.

I know that.

It's amusing to me to point out how much artistic license is used in that particular story, and how much people have to suspend logic and common sense to enjoy them.

I could be wrong but didn't Frankenstein want him to be tough and tall etc so it required different body parts ?

Why did Frankenstein use different body parts instead of a whole cadaver? It's funny too that all those different parts happened to be symmetrical.

If my memory serves me correctly, the idea was to utilize the best portions of each body as well as to distance his work from simply re-animating a corpse, he wanted to create "new" life so to speak. And, while, it is hard to believe that the parts could come together correctly, we are dealing with a fantasy from the early 19th century.

Also, wouldn't the monster have smelled terrible?

Probably, although, he did attempt to use fresh specimens.

Yes! I think that was the answer.

It's been a long time since I read the book, so I don't remember if it had been explained in the book.

I am pretty sure that Dr. Frankenstein used what he thought were the best body parts that were close to similar proportions to create a whole new being not just bringing a deceased one back. Although the book wasn't clear on how the monster was brought to life, the 1931 film and almost all adaptations afterward made it so that the monster is given life through lightning and electricity

It's pronounced fronk-en-shteen.