Frankenstein Loneliness Narrative Essay Example

directed and starred in the film is in excellent shape.

He is well built and energized and excitable. After the creature has burst out from the metal container, he and Dr. Frankenstein have a struggle on the floor, and Frankenstein is in good enough shape to be able to lift the creature and attach him to the chains. Again, the film is dramatised more for the viewers’ pleasure. From watching both Mary Shelley’s film adaptation and James Whale’s 1931 version, there were again, more dramatised elements from Shelley’s 1994 version. The creation is probably the most important scene in each version, whether it is novel or film.

But again, in the older version things are more scientific and less focused on the drama. There is less going on in the scene, yet Dr Frankenstein seems more shocked and delighted that the creature is “alive”. This version seems less bothered with the dramatics of the scene, unlike Shelley’s version, which was not as well received by critics. Having learnt about the author Mary Shelley and her life prior to finishing Frankenstein, she had to deal with loss and death a lot herself, having lost her mother after her own birth and then numerous children throughout her life.Both the film and the original novel both highlight the themes of motherhood and loss. I noticed it more is the film as it was visually easier to observe.

The creature is first put in a large metal coffin-type container, which has been filled with amniotic fluid. This immediately is compared to the womb, which is almost “giving birth” to the creature. Eventually, the creature does wake up, and makes a dramatic

burst out of the container, with amniotic fluid spilling everywhere, leaving him naked on the floor. This again, is related back to childbirth, and the waters breaking.Finally, after Dr Frankenstein eventually lifts the creature up and into the chains to secure him. When he gets lifted up into the air by the chains there is a very subtle bang on his head, and he appears to be dead.

This, once again relates back to childbirth and new borns. The fontanelle is obviously delicate and has been damaged by the bang, resulting in what appears to be death. The same would happen to a new born if such thing happened. One thing that is constant in both novel and film, is Dr.

Frankenstein’s commitment and obsession to complete this project.And eventually he completes his goal of giving life to an inanimate object. As he was obsessed with creating such a thing, the thought that it could go awry, which it does. Victor never thought that he could be horrified or frightened by his creation as he used such delicate and beautiful parts to create him. Frankenstein should have taken more time to think through his dream and the consequences that could come out of making that dream a reality. I think that Frankenstein was more interested in dreams than reality.

The dreaming part gave him an adventure but once he had made that dream a reality it was no longer an adventure for him and he had created something that was not meant to be. It was meant to remain a dream. As we can not visualize the reaction of Victor throughout this scene, I feel the

film adaptation really helps us viewers to understand just how horrified and disgusted Victor was with what he did. Secrecy is a major theme in both novel and film. Victor continues to isolate himself from the ones who love and advise him, in order to finish his dream by creating life.

In the film, we see Elizabeth running frantically to Victor’s home urging him to pack up and leave with her to avoid the disease outbreak in the town. Victor, who is inches away from completing his goal, is rude and intolerant with Elizabeth until she leaves without him, isolating himself more. Dr. Frankenstein has an unhealthy obsession with finishing this project. So much so that it drags him into charnel houses in search of old body parts to steal and sow together in order to form a human.

Once the creature has been created, Victor is ashamed and embarrassed with what he did and refuses to talk about it, even to Henry.The theme of secrecy transforms itself, and is not linked with Victor’s shame and regret for ever thinking or hoping to have created a new life. Both film adaptation and novel, express the creation scene is different ways. The film is filled with drama and visual effects to keep us intrigued, while the original novel is full of details describing to us viewers exactly what the creature looked like. I feel, having both of them combined really helped me to understand Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.