Over the weekend, IRSC put on an amazing version of Victor Glalanella’s Frankenstein. The production was a wonderful work of acting, costume, and set design. Director David Moberg did an amazing job putting this play together. The acting was very strong and clear to understand despite the rare slip on lines. The costumes matched very well with the show and time period, especially the women’s dresses.
My final arts array easy for this quarter that I am writing is my personal favorite in which, I saved for last. I choose to save my last arts essay for a film that brings a lot of child hood memories. I attended this film earlier in the quarter in October at the Abingdon cinema. The film is called Young Frankenstein, a Mel Brooks Film staring the amazing Gene Wilder.
The first atomic weapon was created in 1939 by J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves. The atomic bomb was made with a purpose: to stop Japan from being able to create war and to save as many lives as possible. Victor Frankenstein’s creature was made with good intentions: to give life to an inanimate object and to create the first perfect being. The two organisms, an atomic weapon, and an unnatural being, seem like they’re incomparable, but they’re in many ways similar. Atomic weapons could be considered a “Modern Day Frankenstein” because like the creatures in Frankenstein, they created terror and they hurt innocent people.
In addition, Victor's solitude and arrogance have morphed into monomania and psychopathy; his values are distorted. When Victor is supposed to be anxious about other people's well-being and safety, he focuses on himself and whether he is tranquil. After Victor evacuated his apartment following the creature's awakening, he feared the monster's potential attack on him. When he arrived back at his home, not finding the creation, he felt relief and joy at its escape, rather than fear for others’s harm. Victor narrates, “I stepped fearfully in: the apartment was empty, and my bedroom was also freed from its hideous guest.
Frankenstein’s struggle to understand his origins is once again highlighted in this chapter, as he questions his past and his purpose: “ 'The path of my departure was free, ' and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I?
The 1931 film Frankenstein is not only a retelling of the story of Genesis but also an inversion of the traditional Godly roles and a warning of the dangers of trying to play God. The first mention of God creating human life and how they interact is in Genesis 1:28-30. “28 God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ 29 God said, ‘See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.
Shelley describes the morning after Frankenstein creates the monster and runs away- "Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned, and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt…”. This dreary scene adequately depicts Victor’s miserable, downcast feeling toward the ugly monster he has just created. Shelley also uses the imagery element to bring into view Frankenstein’s painful emotions over the result of his creation. Immediately following the verdict of Justine’s death, a deep feeling of remorse washes over Frankenstein. "The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove.
The author shows this through Frankenstein’s thoughts and actions concerning the monster he created, and the monster’s habits following the discovery of its loneliness. Victor Frankenstein’s thoughts
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells a fictitious tale of the scientist Victor Frankenstein executing his dream of forming life. As soon as his creation awakens, Frankenstein sprints away full of disappointment and dread. Consequently, this sparks the beginning of the creature’s infamous attitude of anger. Despite him carrying around the stereotype of emitting evil, the creature counters it throughout the novel. Part of the novel examines his immense kindness and his unavoidable loneliness.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) is known to be the most accurate movie made to the book Frankenstein. Although there are many accurate scenes, there are also major changes that are not portrayed within the novel. Frankenstein revolves around nature which has a great affect on the characters. Throughout the movie, there was not a lot of nature shown and how the characters were affected by it. There was also not a lot of traveling back and forth to different places.
As Frankenstein becomes obsessed with changing ‘life to death, and death to life’ his fascination with undoing the greater force at work is revealed, and showing his dominion to command nature to his own will corrupts his very being. He becomes no longer aware that man is the creation not the creator, and by becoming the other it will destroy any resemblance of what is left of our humanity and what
Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Human Monster Shelley has in Frankenstein created complicated characters which make us question who the actual monster in this book is. Is it the so-called Frankenstein’s monster or Frankenstein himself? By closely observing their actions, we can notice great differences in how these characters act and think. This paper analyzes the differences between the actions of Victor Frankenstein and his creation and aims to prove that Frankenstein is the actual monster of this book. The first monstrous act of Frankenstein occurs when his monster first comes to life, and he makes the decision to abandon it.
Some of the main qualities that make up the basis of a monster include a creature that mostly deviates from the norm and can pose a threatening force against the rest of society. When it comes to works of fiction, the machine has taken a prominent role in the formation of monsters and continues to do so as societies reliance on technology increases. In 1818s Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, The Curse of Frankenstein produced by Hammer Studios in 1957, and Ex Machina made in 2015 each tells the story of a man pushing the limits and bringing to life a new being, in turn creating a monster. These creations deviate from their creator’s initial expectations and change from being viewed as a wonder to something of horror forcing
The creature's point of view impacts how the reader understands and relates to him as a character in multiple ways. It allows us as readers to not only understand how he thinks but create our own perspective of him rather than learning about him through another character's eyes. A quote whose origin is unknown once said,”Reality simply consists of different point of views.” This quote not only lies true to life but this passage as well. Reading the story in the creature’s point of view allows us to relate and understand him by us seeing why does what he does, what he thinks, and what he knows.
The book was written by Mary Shelley in 1816 and was published in 1818, the time where science did not exist and people who indulged themselves in innovation and the progress of nature were called natural philosophers. The influence on the author was brought by the times she was living in as science was getting through a second birth after alchemists who deemed to be the greatest people who knew many things and tried to create gold out of the stone and explored the possibilities of creating eternal life through a philosopher’s stone. In the year 1816, Mary started to write her bestseller that would be relevant even 200 years after this masterpiece was created because the story is about innovation of science and what can happen when people go
