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Frankenstein
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FRANKENSTEIN
Frankenstein
APPEREANCE
- 8-foot-tall (2.4 m)
- Hideously ugly creation
- Translucent yellowish skin pulled so taut over the body that it "barely disguised the workings of the arteries and muscles underneath"
- Watery, glowing eyes
- Flowing black hair
- Black lips
- Prominent white teeth.
APPEREANCE
CHARACTER TRAITS
- He is a sensitive, emotional creature whose only aim is to share his life with another sentient being like himself.
- Lonely and craves interaction
- Potentially good intentions
- Intelligent, Earth-friendly, and sensitive
- The monster attempts to fit into human society
- His feeling of abandonment compels him to seek revenge against his creator, Victor Frankenstein.
- He regrets his existence and learns to hate humans
CHARACTER TRAITS
ROLE
- Frankestein (monster) is the protagonist in the movie
- As the movie progresses and new problems arise he starts to switch between antagonists and protagonists
- He is also a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
- The monster is intentionally presented in such a manner so that it is not clear whether he is a hero or a villain.
- What Shelley illustrates is that there is no clear-cut good guy or bad guy in the story; there are only victims.
ROLE
THE NOVEL
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels ever written.
- "Frankenstein" was written by Shelley as a teenager (18yrs)
- The book is about a man called Dr. Victor Frankenstein who tries to create life.
- In the novel, Dr. Frankenstein narrates the tale of how he created a monster from an inanimate body he constructed.
- Frankenstein was the name of the scientist (Victor Frankenstein), not the monster.
- The monster remains unnamed and is referred to as "monster," “creature,” "demon," and "it.”
- The creator is horrified over the aberration he’s unleashed upon the Earth to give his creation a name
THE NOVEL
LINKS BETWEEN THE MONSTER AND HUMANS
Although Frankestein is a monster, he can feel emotions such as :
- Love: when he wants to find someone of the same "species" so that they can fall in love
- Sadness: when he realises that he is ugly and no one wants him
- Frustration: when he realises that his master did his to him and he wants revenge on Dr.Frankestein
Frankestein (monster) also has human physical characteristics, such as a nose, two eyes, mouth, lips, teeth, limbs, etc.
LINKS BETWEEN THE MONSTER AND HUMANS
WHAT DOES HE REPRESENT ?
- The monster is used to represent the basic human needs for food and shelter.
- The need for companionship
- The need for acceptance from others
- An advance in science
- A symbol symbol of the outcast from society: the weak, the poor, the disspossed... and the way society treats them
WHAT DOES HE REPRESENT ?
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