Comparing Frankenstein 'And The Creature'

I went to see Frankenstein (2011) at The National Theatre. I watched Benedict Cumberbatch play the Creature, Johnny Lee Miller as Frankenstein and Karl Johnson as De Lacey. I will be focusing on the scene between De Lacey and The Creature. I will be focusing on the relationship between the two characters who are The Creature and De Lacey, and how it develops throughout the scene and the wide range of emotions that take place. The Creature says the line ‘Why am I hungry, why no food for me? Benedict, aggressively, points his fingers towards his stomach, to indicate the extent of his hunger. Benedict cleverly says the line, ‘Why am I hungry,’ with a firm tone to show how people have wronged him and how badly they mistreated him by not feeding the creature, due to his grotesque appearance and non-human characteristics. Benedict then shrewdly, leans his

This can actually show a more comfortable relationship between De Lacey and the Creature because the Creature is willing to release all these emotions onto De Lacey and the Creature knows that De Lacey won’t punish him in any sort of way because he projected his voice, and that De Lacey will listen to the Creature with ‘open arms’ and try to comfort the Creature. When De Lacey says “It is the condition of men to be hungry”, Karl intelligently, slowly turns his upper-body to his left towards the Creature to create a closer connection between the Creature and De Lacey. Because De Lacey wants to make it apparent to the Creature men should have a form of suffering, whether it just be hungry, as men in society have been depicted as those who endure pain and struggle, which shows courageousness and ‘manliness’. Lacey also turns slowly as this emphasises his old age and how his body is fragile and weak, so Lacey has to do everyday tasks at a slow