Frankenstein : Characters

Victor Frankenstein : Dr frankenstein is the main character, he works at university, he is ambitious and he wants to discover many secrets.So he begins to create a monster, and the creature comes life, Frankenstein rejects his creation and tries to escape.

The Creature : The creature is the creation of Dr Frankenstein, and he wants love from his creator.

He is very ugly and scary.

Elizabeth Lavenza : She is the adopted cousin of Frankenstein, she is beautiful and smart, she becomes  Victor's companion.

Henry Clerval : He is an old friend of Frankenstein, Henry is nice and kind.

 Alphonse Frankenstein : He is the father of Victor, he is benevolent man, he loves his wife, and his children.

This is the official trailer of the Frankenstein movie of 1931   by James Whale with Boris Karloff.

The creature

Frankenstein's monster is described like a real abomination. The creature is made of flesh and organs of different humans corpses Just the appearance of his creature is very scary.

In this fiction the monster is the first human being created by the man, so frankenstein acts like a god, but maybe man is not made to create other creatures, because according to Frankenstein it's a failure. We can have compassion for the monster, he is not responsible for his nature, he is like a lost baby without family.

The differents films

          The different films

There are many Frankenstein Movies

The most famous is probably the second in 1931 by James Whale with Boris Karloff. Thanks to this
movie Frankenstein became really famous.













There are also other famous movies about Frankenstein
like
-Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
-Son of Frankenstein (1939)
-The ghost of Frankenstein (1942)



So with one book, after many years came a lot of new adaptations.

The book

FRANKENSTEIN OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was immediately successful.

It was written by Mary Shelley and published on the first edition anonymously in  1818. In the second edition published in 1823 the name of Mary Shelley appear .

Frankenstein is a story mainly of science fiction and horror.

The novel of Frankenstein is written on epistolary form.

Summary

The novel starts with a series of letters from Robert Walton to his sister. Walton is an English Arctic explorer who spots a strange creature on a dog-sled. The exhausted Victor Frankenstein arrives, in pursuit of the creature, and while recuperating tells his story. He has been born into a wealthy Geneva family. After his mother dies he becomes a student of natural philosophy and medicine. Inspired by occult philosophy and the teaching of his mentor, Waldman, he builds a creature in the semblance of a man and gives it life. Its body is assembled from parts which Frankenstein has stolen from butcher shops, dissecting rooms, and charnel-houses. The creature is repeatedly rejected by those who see it, but the monster proves intelligent, and later highly articulate. Receiving no love, it becomes embittered. Frankenstein deserts his creation, who disappears. "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I have deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I have finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.". Frankenstein hears that his younger brother, William, has been strangled, but Justine, his family's servant confesses to the murder. However, later the monster says that he murdered William and framed Justine. Frankenstein then agrees to make a mate for the monster so that it will not bother anyone again. A wave of remorse makes him destroy the female. The lone creature swears revenge. He kills Frankenstein's bride, Elizabeth, on their wedding night. The scientist becomes mad, but recovers and chases the creature across the world. The two confront in the Arctic wastes. Frankenstein dies. The creature describes eloquently to Walton his efforts to seek out beauty and how crime has degraded it beneath the meanest animal. "He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the wind play on my cheeks. Light, feeling, and sense will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness." The monster leaps from the ship on a ice-raft, disappearing again in the darkness. The novel does not contain supernatural elements. Frankenstein is a scientist who challenges the Creator of the world with the possibilities of modern science, but is destroyed by his own ethical irresponsibility.

            

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