The Superperfect Bride story
A man meets in a supposedly surgically assembled composite woman the perfect bride.
10 total · 5 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| appearance altering technology | major | Broderick was made to believe that Doctor Goddard had created in Eve a composite woman (with a Norwegian's hair, dancers' legs, a tennis player's arm, etc.) who was both physically and mentally perfect. |
| father and daughter | major | Doctor Goddard and his daughter Eve hatched an elaborate plot to court for her the man she loved. |
| romantic love | major | Broderick wanted nothing more than to be with the perfect woman Eve, and in the end it turned out that Eve had wanted him all along. |
| test of love | major | It turned out that Doctor Goddard had perpetrated the elaborate fiction that Eve was a surgically created perfect woman, and that Broderick must submit to be himself surgically altered to be perfect, as part of an elaborated test to assay Broderick's fitness to marry Eve. |
| what if I met the perfect mate | major | Broderick found in Eve a physically and mentally perfect woman. |
| eugenics | minor | Doctor Goddard mentioned in passing that he'd first thought to fashion the perfect woman through the application of eugenics. |
| mad scientist stereotype | minor | Doctor Goddard feigned being a mad scientist to Broderick. The doctor claimed he had created in Eve the perfect woman by surgically replacing her appendages and other parts with better members taken from other women; one woman he had to kidnap. He also claimed that he wish to transform Broderick into the perfect man, name him Adam, marry him to Eve, and start a new race of perfect humans. |
| sexism in society | minor | Broderick "had never expected to find" in Eve "the methodical mind of a chess player". |
| the game of tennis | minor | Eve pushed Broderick to his physical limit in a spirited game of tennis. |
| what is beauty | minor | Doctor Goddard and Broderic engaged in a lengthy philosophical discussion on the nature of beauty. |