Alraune story
Professor ten Brinken artificially inseminates a bar girl with a mandrake root that was somehow formed from the semen of a hanged man.
9 total · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| facing organized pursuit | major | Professor Brinken faced investigators closing in on him for having committed fraud and blackmail and shot himself before they got him |
| mandrake root legend | major | story based on the legend that old German mandrake legend related to using a mandrake root that is somehow formed from the sperm of a hanged man to impregnate women |
| playing God with nature | major | Professor Brinken was directly accused of playing God with nature by artificially inseminating a bar girl with a mandrake root and warned that he would pay for what he had done |
| uncle and niece | major | Professor Brinken raises the mandrake girl Alraune as his niece |
| unrequited love | major | Professor Brinken and Frank Braun loved the girl Alraune who could not experience the emotion of love |
| what is natural | major | it is discussed whether Alraune was an unnatural and monstrous creation |
| scientist occupation | minor | The geneticist Professor Jakob ten Brinken artificially inseminated a some rats with a mandrake root (a plant that was formed from the sperm of a hanged man) as a prelude to performing the procedure on a bar girl. |
| the thrill of danger | minor | Alraune commands her driver to go faster and faster down the road presumably for the thrill of it all |
| uncle and nephew | minor | Frank Braun urged his uncle Professor Brinken to create a woman from a mandrake root |