Doctor Blood's Coffin story
Young biochemist Dr Peter Blood returns to his hometown in Cornwall with the belief that he can selectively restore life by transplanting the living hearts of 'undeserving' people into dead people who 'deserve' to live.
9 total · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| father and son | major | Dr. Robert Blood and Dr. Peter Blood. |
| heart transplant | major | Dr. Peter Blood was transplanting hearts from living people into dead ones in order to revive them to life. |
| mad scientist stereotype | major | Dr. Peter Blood was transplanting hearts from living people into dead ones in order to revive them to life. |
| revival long after death | major | Dr. Peter Blood was transplanting hearts from living people into dead ones in order to revive them to life. |
| romantic love | major | Dr. Peter Blood and Nurse Linda Parker. |
| unethical experimentation for scientific progress | major | Is is okay for Dr. Robert Blood to take the lives of people he deems worthless so that he can perfect his heart transplantation technique, thus allowing great men to live on and advance civilization? |
| human vs. monster | minor | Dr. Peter Blood turned Steve Parker into a zombie in an attempt to revive him from the dead. The zombie then tried to kill Peter. |
| unethical human experimentation | minor | Dr. Peter Blood's professor in Vienna warned Peter that he would alert the authorities if he continued with his heart transplant experiments with people before trying them first on animals. |
| zombie | minor | Dr. Peter Blood turned Steve Parker into a zombie in an attempt to revive him from the dead. |