Frankenstein

What is “the elixir of life”?

Chapter 2

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The modern masters promise very little they know that metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is a chimera.

In context, "chimera" is mean myth..... defining the elixir of life as nothing more than a story.

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Frankenstein, Chapter Three