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Frankenstein
Published in 1818, Frankenstein, the full title of which is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel with Gothic elements and Romantic ideals written by Mary Shelley. It warns against the unchecked pursuit of scientific knowledge. The story describes how Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, creates a powerful man-like being whose horrific appearance makes him a lonely outcast. When Frankenstein will not create a mate for the being, his creation decides to take revenge. In the book, the creature built by Frankenstein is never given a name.
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it is about a big green thing that a EDUCATED MAN
created it killed every one on planet earth
Physical Setting and Symbolic Places in Frankenstein - examples and significance of them?
Frankenstein - A fortress in Germany (the ancestral homeland of the franks) it means 'Rock of the Franks' in German. It used as the laboratory for some Victorians scientists (name needed) for experiments in electro-magnetism an fledgling science at the time of Mary Shelley.
La Mer De Glace - A large glacier in Switzerland (Means The sea of glass in French). Where the Dr. and the Monster met and talked.
The Hebrides Islands - Where the Dr. dared to make a female monster.
A ship trapped in the ice near the north pole - Where the Dr. chased the monster trying to kill it and finally died.
All these locations were chosen for their Gothic atmosphere I'm sure.
What problems would a screenwriter have to adapting to the novel Frankenstein to a movie format?
copious inner thoughts and philosophizing.
Why was the book Frankenstein so popular?
Mary (then Mary Wolstonecraft Godwin) Shelly's Frankenstein was actually written on sort of a dare. While vacationing in Switzerland with Lord Byron, Mary and her future husband Percy Shelly and friends were housebound during inclement weather. To entertain themselves, they began talking, telling each other stories. The dare comes about when Lord Byron challenged the members of the group to to see who could create a supernatural tale. Mary Shelly had a nightmare as a result of the ghost stories and began to draft Frankenstein the next day.
How does Lord Byron relate to the book Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley's inspiration for the novel came out of a story she wrote when Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley were staying on lake Geneva. The three of them challanged each other to a ghost story competition. Mary's story became Frankenstien.
Further, many aspects of Byron's personality are said to have inspired aspects of "the creature". Byron had a club foot which cause him to walk with an awkward and shambling gait. Of all the Romantic Poets Byron best represents the spirit of firey indignation and willfullness that accompanies the Romantic spirit, both in his writing (see Prometheus and Manfred) as well as in his life.
How did Elizabeth come to live with the Frankenstein?
Victor's mother asked the peasants she lived with for permission to raise her. (end of chapter 1)
She was adopted In southern Italy by Caroline Frankenstein.
In the book there was no such a person.
In the movies he is known as Igor.
Are there flashbacks in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
The entire book is actually a frame story. Dr. Frankenstein relate the story of his life to the sea captain before he dies.
Are there any film adaptations of Frankenstein that resemble the 1818 text?
1994 Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
What is the madness you the Frankenstein play?
It displays his guilt and the shocking truth that nobody belives. It also shows how Victor displaces his evil into his monster.
What are differences between Frankenstein book and the movie1995?
It, of course, depends on which movie you mean, but I'm assuming you mean the 1931 classic.
- In the movie the monster never speaks. In the book he has a lot to say.
- In the movie the monster is burned to death. In the book he leaves 'for the farthest shore.'
- In the movie Frankenstein's assistant, Fritz (aka Igor), gets an abnormal brian. In the book there is no Igor and no problem with the brain.
- In the book the doctor's younger brother is killed. In the movie there is no younger brother, only Frankenstein's father the Baron.
- In the book, Frankenstein's first name was Victor and his friend's name was Henry. In the movie their names are reversed.
the first gothic noveln was the castle of otranto, so there you go your answer is compeltely irrelevant.... lol
is isn't irrelevant you have just put the answere to the wrong Question . and i new the answer to the first gothic novel anyway but what is the story behind the writing of frankenstein?? because i can't see behind it. lol =)
How was Frankenstein affected by the time period?
The plot of the story is dependent on the science of biological-electrostatic phenomena which was a new science at the time.
The novel Frankenstein had its origins in a?
Bad Dream or nightmare. I think Miss Shelley admitted this.
How did victor Frankenstein mother die in the film?
Sadly, Yes. Victor's soon-to-be Wife Elizabeth is murdered just before the couples' wedding night. Elizabeth is killed by the monster (frankenstien's creation) and when Victor returns home to tell his father, he finds his dad on his death bed only a few days later.
Why did Victor agree to listen to the creature's tale in Frankenstein?
The creature's strongly persuasive arguments (the creature expressed the loneliness of him being left out & suggested that victor should take care of his own creature:" [I] am thy creature.") made Victor unable to refuse to listen to the creature's story.
What secret does Frankenstein discover during his years of devoted study?
The secret to creating life
Script on the film Frankenstein?
You can find many different Frankenstein Scripts here: http://www.hollywoodscriptshop.com/movie_scripts_F.html
In Frankenstein how do Elizabeth and Henry affect Victor's life and his studies?
She offers his love which he rejects when he tries to create life and become 'Godlike'
Henry ultimately couldn't save Victor from himself.
How has Mary Shelleys Frankenstein shocked and fascinated the readers for so many years?
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written during a summer holiday in 1816. 1816 was the 'Year without a Summer', and saw the last worldwide famine due to climatic reasons.
Mary Shelley's novel is about what happens when Science begins to do things that only God was supposed to be able to do. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates life - but in fact after 1816 agricultural science was able to control, and mitigate, worldwide famines (which had previously been a regular feature of human life).
Humans are not yet used to how much control we suddenly seem to have over 'Acts of God'. The global plagues and famines which used to be a regular feature of life are now almost history (cholera and smallpox are already historical diseases). We are even able to give people new hearts and allow barren couples to have children through IVF.
Many people worry that Man is not yet wise enough to 'Play God' - but nobody wants to refuse the antibiotics which will stop them from dying in their early 40's.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein examines what happens when an ordinary scientist is given the power of life and death. These days every surgeon in an ER has that on a weekly basis.
