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Frankenstein: Movie and Novel

Introduction Frankenstein is one of the great myths of cinema and literature of fantasy and horror. However, its literary origin, linked to Romanticism, is little known compared to the popularity of their film versions (Crocker, pp. 379-385). Topic is very interesting to reflect on the relationship between text and image, literature and film, and how the various codes of expression shape a message and what differences provide each language. With regard to the aims of this content analysis, paper considered the arguments and differences of treatment offer Mary Shelley's novel “Frankenstein” (textual language) and a film based on the same (visual language). Both languages have a number of elements that characterize them, and the paper tried to make an analytical reading of both documents establishing those elements that differentiate them.

Discussion

One of the main themes of the play is death, the obsessive desire of man to overcome it and the subsequent revenge of fate (or God) for that arrogance. Do not forget that the subtitle of the novel is “The Modern Prometheus”. The mythology that Prometheus Gods stole one of his most precious secrets, the fire, the benefit of mankind, and how he was punished for it (Crocker, pp. 379-385). Frankenstein as a modern Prometheus, wants to discover the divine secret of immortality, how to conquer death, and the punishment of his audacity is the total destruction of you and your loved ones. We must also consider the Creature meanings in context, to better understand the film and not be in the simple story. In the book and in the movie the myth of Frankenstein is updated with multiple connotations (Golman, pp. n.d.). Because Frankenstein is several characters at once: the being that comes from death, as the vampire, the creature grotesque mixture of parts, the monster that manifests itself violently rebel against its creator and the whole order of things, and so on, all these personalities together in the Frankenstein myth.

First, is a typically gothic and romantic figure, by the contrast between physical deformity and “authenticity” of the feelings, or the scenery of a beautiful and hostile landscape that serves as a counterpoint to the action? It is also the “anti-hero”, full of ugliness, rejected by all and mortally wounded by solitude, embracing evil just because they cannot escape it. Second, the creature is related to the world of science in the late eighteenth century. Frankenstein is a visionary scientist who creates a monster that could start thinking and feeling and turns against humanity after seeing how he repudiated all even its creator. Specialists believe that Mary Shelley was based on scientific practices that, at that time, were almost inaccessible. So, Frankenstein creature personifies the fear of science and technology (Crocker, pp. 379-385).

The theme of Frankenstein synthesizes all these trends. Creature is a product of the way romantic extravagance, but also a monster that science created from a mixture of things, that is, the way in which scientists already working with ...