Opening Sequences of Frankenstein by James Whale and Kenneth Branagh

Frankenstein, a novel first published in the year 1818, stands as the most talked about work of Mary Shelley’s literary career. She was just nineteen years old when she penned this novel, and throughout her lifetime she could not produce any other work that surpasses this novel in terms of creativity and vision. In this novel, Shelley found an outlet for her own intense sense of victimization, and her desperate struggle for love. Traumatized by her failed childbirth incidents, troubled childhood, and scandalous courtship, many of Shelley’s life experiences can be seen reflected in the novel. When discussing the character and development of the monster, Shelley launches an extensive discussion on the

He started to think through everything he did, and even stopped himself from creating a second monster towards the end of the book. “...never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness” (Shelley 107). After everything that had happened to him, Frankenstein had finally decided not to create another monster. Victor had decided that creating another monster would be much worse than losing everyone he loved. The monster caused Frankenstein to grow as a character. He became more responsible and less impulsive by the end of the novel. Frankenstein may have lost everything, but he had learned from his mistakes and knew better than to create a second monster after he had suffered so much because of the first one. The monster’s creation and overall character forced Frankenstein to finally take into consideration the gravity of what he had done. Frankenstein had finally understood that the monster was a result of his own actions, and, in fact, was the complete embodiment of everything he had done wrong. The monster was all of Frankenstein’s horrific actions in one living being, and Frankenstein had finally understood that. Even Frankenstein’s arrangement with monster demonstrated Frankenstein’s growth. The monster had caused Victor to feel empathy towards the monster. In

The novel Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley in 1818. This gothic romance novel tells the story of a philosopher who discovered how to create life, without the full knowledge that his actions could cause grave consequences. Universal Studios made the film version of this novel in 1931. Unfortunately, the film version of Frankenstein has more differences than similarities to the novel. In the novel, Victor’s mental obsession seems to be more severe than in the film. The character of Victor Frankenstein was portrayed in both the novel and the film as a veriphobe, or one who is afraid of the truth, in this case, the truth of his actions. He

This novel reflects Shelley’s own childhood, which consisted of her feeling obligated to rebel against her own father’s wishes and his choice for her marriage. Frankenstein is a way for Shelley to tell her own experiences with parental conflict and how she feels she was affected by her demanding father and the environment she grew up in, by comparing herself to Victor’s monster. Shelley analyzed her own characteristics, and the characteristics of her father, and placed them within Victor and the

In reading the book Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and watching the by the same title, I discovered several large differences. Primarily, the edited and modified parts were changed to make the movie more interesting.

In many movie adaptations of a novel, the film doesn’t do the book justice in its story telling. Movie versions generally do not focus on the characters’ emotions or thoughts like the books do. They also do not develop the characters as well as the original story, giving the viewer little to no knowledge of a certain person. This is the case in Frankenstein. While there are some similarities between the original written version and the one on screen, the movie doesn’t delve into the lives of the main characters: Victor and the creature. The loss of characterization and focus on their lives takes away the audience’s take on consequences.

Frankenstein by author Mary Shelley is a Gothic science fiction novel written in Switzerland between 1816–1817, and published January 1, 1818. Set in eighteenth century Geneva, Frankenstein tells the story of a young man named Victor who goes away to college to study natural philosophy, chemistry, and alchemy. When armed with the knowledge he has long been seeking, Victor spends months constructing a creature out of old body parts, and in the secrecy of his apartment, brings his creation to life. The monstrous abomination later disappears, and when a mysterious series of deaths start to occur in Victor’s family, he is certain his creation is the cause, and devotes his life to vanquishing the savage fiend. Mary Shelley makes full use of popular themes during the time she wrote Frankenstein such as the invasion of technology into modern life, and the restorative powers of nature in the face of unnatural events. She also addresses the complex role of Christian allusions in the text which convinces the reader to believe that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has a strong biblical allegory and portrays the dangers of playing God.

Frankenstein was first published in 1818 which was two years after she got the idea. In Mary’s life she went to Switzerland to carry on with her life but a year later she gave birth to a child which unfortunately passed away. This period in her life then haunted her for the rest of her life until one year later used it as a story in a contest. In this book Shelly used a literary technique called Foreshadowing; foreshadowing are small indications of what is going to happen in the book for example ““One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race,” which foreshadows what the price Frankenstein will actually

For Frankenstein there are a plethora of motifs that can ideally fit into every plot point of Frankenstein but most notably lost innocence. As fictional as Frankenstein can get, there is a lesson to be learned in terms of how Frankenstein was raised by the wild and by the sheer brutal upbringing of nature and being judged everywhere he goes. In chapter 12 there was an incident where The Creature runs into a small little cottage house and when he approaches it to check it out the owner sights the Creature and runs away in fear and although the monster is unaware of why, it all accumulates with people seeing him and running away and when The Creature finally sees himself it all hits him. (Shelley 48) As well as when he saw his

Victor Frankenstein’s thoughtless surrendering and animosity of his creation motivates the catastrophe in the novel. After devoting many hours of restless, yet hopeful, labor to his work, Victor completes his final masterpiece. However, he loses all hope as he explains how “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being [he] had created, [he] rushed out of the room” (Shelley 36). Victor exhibits

In many situations today, the children most common problem can be trace back to their family issue. Without a strong bond of relationship between their parents can consequently cause a destruction of children’s future. Even more, the children grow up unsteadily with aggressive behavior and the sign of depression. This has come to be a controversial issue and as well the depth of the story that is contain in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. To many misinterpretations from the movie, the creature itself was to accused to be a villain in the plot. As it show in Mary Shelly’s novel a deeper analysis has reveal that Victor Frankenstein is the real blame for

Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me”(68). His creator could help him cope with everyone’s hatred towards but he could not look at what he had created and hated the monster. The lack of love and the desire for love pushed the monster to murder Victor’s brother and then his whole family as retribution for his betrayal. The monster wanted to inflict “desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him’ (102). Victor was the recipient of this creature's anger and the creature made it known how angry he had become with lack of help from Victor. This betrayal drove the monster insane after “the murder of Clerval, I returned to Switzerland, heartbroken and overcome. I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror.(164) The monster had become filled with regret for the all the evils had committed, but he still wanted to do one more thing to destroy Victor by killing his

At Birth a monster, At risk humanity In “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley Victor Frankenstein creates a hideous monster to appease his obsession in science. During the monster's beginning of life he travels through many sufferable and emotional obstacles. These major events are shown throughout the examples of imagery, and tone and to intensify the scene a series of soundtracks were included.

The monster 's appearance causes his creator to abandon him and prevents him from normal human interaction. He is forced to learn about the world on his own and spends most of his time watching others. Frankenstein is not the only one negatively affected by his existence. In the process of bringing the monster to life, Victor had deprived himself of rest and health, causing him to fall ill for several months. Shortly after his recovery, Victor learns his younger brother has been murdered. Frankenstein has killed his creator’s brother and framed an innocent girl to get back at Victor for abandoning him. After the girl is executed, Victor becomes consumed with guilt knowing he is responsible for two of his family members deaths. The monster does not stop there, he goes on to kill Victor’s friend Henry and fiance, Elizabeth. Because of his creation, Victor is haunted by depression and guilt for most of his life and died a lonely death hunting Frankenstein.

Through the many scenes of the horror film Frankenstein directed by James Whale, the most significant one was the creation scene. In this scene, Dr. Frankenstein is having his mad science dream of creating life become a reality. There is a lot happening in this scene, some cinematic elements and some thematically. Both elements produce one of the most famous clips in film history.