Frankenstein, a play adaption done by Colony High School, was directed by Mr. Brian Mead, a language art, drama, journalism, and digital communications teacher. The genre of this play was more horror and romance than anything else. I attended with my friend and my father November 16, 2013. It all starts when Victor Frankenstein becomes fascinated with electricity and convinces himself that he can recreate life. He has two men gather a recently dead body to bring back to him. Along the way, it is revealed that Victor is to be married soon to his love, Elizabeth. Once the men have delivered the corpse to Victor, he wastes hardly any time. Victor brings Henry to his lab to assist him in bringing the dead back to life. After moments of waiting and preparations with electricity had been made, nothing happened. Victor gave up on his idea, with Henry’s convincing, and left. While he is gone, the corpse is stricken by lightning, making it come to life. When Victor comes back, he sees his creation and is more than excited. He examines the now breathing corpse carefully and talks with Henry, who gives caution to Victor from the side, about ideas and ways to experiment. The corpse lashes out once Henry brings light close to him and ends up falling out the window, never to be seen by Victor or Henry for many weeks after. The corpse, who I will now call Frankenstein, finds an old blind woman named Delacy. Since she is blind, she finds no terror or shock when she talks with him and instead treats him like he is a regular person. She gives him food and warmth from a blanket and even teaches him a few words. There is a small time skip and when it is brought back, Delacy has taught Frankenstein to read, talk, and understand more things than he did...
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... their lines as well as their actions and all spoke clearly. They all used great emotion, though Victor won by far as I also mentioned, and even used fantastic body language in order to give more meaning and feeling to their words and actions. I would rank this play nine and a half out of ten stars because though it was pretty wonderful, there were a few things left unsaid. All the actors and actresses were spectacular in everything they did, though a few minor changes to the script would have made it slightly easier to understand. For the most part, the characters made sense and the events that followed made even more sense. All in all, Frankenstein was a wonderful play that I had the honor of seeing before it was gone forever. I look forward to more future plays by the Drama Club in hopes that they are all as good, or better, than their production of Frankenstein.
Do not judge a book by its cover. Those are the words of a famous American proverb that says a person’s character cannot be judged based on their appearance. This proverb is very fitting in regards to the monster from Frankenstein. On the outside, he has a terrible appearance, and as a result is victimized and made to suffer by those who cannot see past his looks. Yet he has a kind soul and is simply looking for happiness and a little compassion from others. Both the book and the play present him as a sufferer in a cruel world but ultimately the book does a better job portraying his pain and eliciting empathy from the reader. The monster in the book details his suffering in greater detail, is more eloquent and persuasive and also experiences a more tragic ending, and as a result the reader feels more sympathy towards him than an audience member would feel towards the monster in the play.
Frankenstein, a novel by Mary Shelley, illustrates the trials including Victor Frankenstein's triumphs, a character who owned a lovely with memorable life experiences that shaped the independent college student he became. Despite Victor growing up in a welcoming setting, he struggled to find the intellectual purpose of acquiring a college education in his physical science interest to generate the likelihood of reviving a dead corpse with electricity to acquire the comfortability to feel like God. Mary Shelley used diction and imagery to convey shifts in mood that supported the plot of chapters one through five in Frankenstein to inundate the reader with the feelings the characters of the story were facing.
Frankenstein defied human boundaries when he created the monster and because of this not only his life, but the lives of others have also shifted, this has caused their lives to spiral into an unjustified conclusion. Curiosity was the main cause of him learning how to create such a thing, his lack of caring for the thing that he created led to his undoing. His motivation for creating life, comes from the fact that he lost someone dear to him. Although Victor was young when his mother died, it had serious effects on the way he viewed life and maybe even himself. Once you take on the father role you have to stick to it, otherwise creating life
creature is not to blame - it is the creator. For this reason, we feel
Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Analyzing a book can be a killer. Especially when it contains tons of subtle little messages and hints that are not picked up unless one really dissects the material. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a prime example.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a truly famous novel that has been revisited by many, as well as revised by the author in the many years since its original publication. Within this novel Shelley conveys the tragic fictional story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster that he thoughtlessly brought to life, as well as the lives of those affected by his hideous creation. Throughout the novel it is made quite apparent that the monster was not inherently evil, in fact the monster was quite benign, however through its interactions with society the monster is slowly shaped into a being that can truly be called just that, a monster. All of the aforementioned change to the monster are brought about in part by the societal standards of the time period
“In the beginning GOD created the Heavens and the Earth”; thus, their power is limitless even in scenery. Mary Shelley’s 1816 gothic science fiction novel, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, introduces us to a young intellectually inquisitive man, Victor Frankenstein, who walks a thin line between scientific exploration and blasphemous conduct while attempting to bring glory to his name by creating a new species as if it were human. The setting in this novel highlights much significance: the unnatural occurrences of man have caused them to seek refuge in nature’s pure beauty implying the restorative powers of nature in the face of unnatural events.
In each of the movies, the comedy and the play, the monster has an abnormal brain and body parts from different people.&n a mind that is controlled by a mad scientist named Dr. Victor Frankenstein. That is why he should be blamed for the tragedy. & nbsp; Another fact that can be observed from the movies is Victor's initial confusion on how best to carry out the project. Since there are different versions, or sources of the story, it is interesting to see how each producer portrays Victor's role in the disaster. In Frankenstein, the play, it is not Victor who has the initial initiative, it is his lab partner. The in the name of science" to justify their acts of violating the dead. At the same time, his lab assistant is slowly getting pushed out of the picture. This is because of Victor's greed. Near the end of the play, it is evident that his lab assistant knows that the experiment is threatening human lives, and that Victor is blinded by his quest. The lab assistant tries to end it by killing the monster, but loses the battle; the monster instead kills him the monster before it kills anybody. Definitely, Victor is to blame. & nbsp; What is very interesting is how all the stories have different endings which relate to who is to blame. The different endings clearly show that the director or writer of each piece of work had a different view on Mary Shelley's original version. In Mary Shelley's version of Frankenstein, Victor loses the monster; the monster wanders off or runs away, and he has to close attention to the monster. The monster encounters William and Henry and kills them. When Victor finally realizes that he has made a mistake by giving life to a dead human, he searches for the monster, equipped with a gun. In the forest, Victor sees the monster, and right before he shoots him, says, "I shouldn't have created you in the first place," thinking that he has killed him. The monster comes back after Victor gets married You hurt me.
Relevancy of Frankenstein “The most miserable people are those who care only about themselves, understand only their own troubles and see only their own perspective.” This quote from an unknown source perfectly describes how selfish people are not always happy and they are not helping anyone except themselves. Victor Frankenstein shows many qualities that he is a very selfish person, and Frankenstein has been relevant for almost 200 years, but why? One of the major reasons is that we can learn from and understand that Victor Frankenstein was selfish and only cared about what he thought was right.
... the monster from the novel. At the end of the play he appears to Frankenstein, appeals to him for a little bit and then Frankenstein accepts him and they live together. The monster from the book undergoes a much harsher life and end, and as a result the sympathy a reader has for him far exceeds that of an audience member.
Explore the ways Mary Shelley presents the character of the monster in Frankenstein We are prepared for the arrival of the monster in many different ways, before he is created we know the monster is going to be a repulsive figure of a human being, but the reader is still intrigued into reading further, and because of Shelley's descriptive language we already feel disgust towards victors creation, and in doing so, we our-selves become just as callous as those people in the book that neglect Frankenstein's monster. Also because the monster was created by Victor using parts dug up from graves and morgues, and we associate graveyards with horror and death, there is immediately something sinister about the monster and to a point, Victor. The reader can already see the problems with creating artificial life in this way, and in the beginning of the novel, the reader is almost willing victor not to pursue his quest for knowledge, but victor is blinded by his own arrogance to stop and think carefully about what he is about to do. This is when Victor the man becomes separated from Frankenstein the scientist. "I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted" Victor despises death, and his mind is occupied incessantly with it, and after the demise of his mother, victor cannot escape it, and subconsciously he dedicates his life towards combating the process.
“Allure, Authority, and Psychoanalysis” discusses the unconscious wishes, effects, conflicts, anxieties, and fantasies within “Frankenstein.” The absence of strong female characters in “Frankenstein” suggests the idea of Victor’s desire to create life without the female. This desire possibly stems from Victor’s attempt to compensate for the lack of a penis or, similarly, from the fear of female sexuality. Victor’s strong desire for maternal love is transferred to Elizabeth, the orphan taken into the Frankenstein family. This idea is then reincarnated in the form of a monster which leads to the conclusion that Mary Shelley felt like an abandoned child who is reflected in the rage of the monster.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or; The Modern Prometheus, published in 1818, is a product of its time. Written in a world of social, political, scientific and economic upheaval it highlights human desire to uncover the scientific secrets of our universe, yet also confirms the importance of emotions and individual relationships that define us as human, in contrast to the monstrous. Here we question what is meant by the terms ‘human’ and ‘monstrous’ as defined by the novel. Yet to fully understand how Frankenstein defines these terms we must look to the etymology of them. The novel however, defines the terms through its main characters, through the themes of language, nature versus nurture, forbidden knowledge, and the doppelganger motif. Shelley also shows us, in Frankenstein, that although juxtaposing terms, the monstrous being everything human is not, they are also intertwined, in that you can not have one without the other. There is also an overwhelming desire to know the monstrous, if only temporarily and this calls into question the influence the monstrous has on the human definition.
In regards of the casting, the portrayal of Victor as a mad scientist as well as Elizabeth and Victor Moritz (Henry Clerval) are very effective. However, the monster was compromised and he was made to look unintelligent compared to Shelley’s book where he learned to live with villagers and even made conversation with his creator in an attempt to make him create a companion (101). I also noticed that the ending of the movie where they decided to kill the character of the monster in order to make the viewer feel relieved that there will be no more monster in Henry Frankenstein’s society. Furthermore, the monster did not end up killing Elizabeth compared to the real story in Shelley’s book where the monster actually left her for dead (140). I believe that the film makers did not want to follow Mary Shelley’s book because they don’t want to inflict depression to their audience instead they want to uplift they spirit due to the fact that this era was the time where people are just getting out of economic downfall and
Mary Shelley in her book Frankenstein addresses numerous themes relevant to the current trends in society during that period. However, the novel has received criticism from numerous authors. This paper discusses Walter Scott’s critical analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in his Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Review of Frankenstein (1818).