Thinking activity: Frankenstein

          On 1st August 2022, we had a movie screening of Mary shalley's Frankenstein directed by Kenneth Branagh. Here, I'm writing a movie review of 'Frankenstein' and some questions about Mary shalley's novel 'Frankenstein'.

           

->Movie review:

Cast:

Directed by

Kenneth Branagh

Helena Bonham Carter

as Elizabeth

Kenneth Branagh

as Victor

Tom Hulce 

as Henry

Robert De Niro 

as Creature 

         The film begins with the ocean of the North pole. Here, the ship's crew and captain walton come across a mysterious man who introduces himself as victor Frankenstein and begin a story of him that he lost his everything.

        Victor left his home for further education. He promised to Elizabeth, his stepsister, that he will marry her. In university city Frankenstein learns the secrets of preserving life from professor woldman.

     Eventually, Victor became so inclose with his concept that the perfect creation of man that would be superior to human beings from every way. Unfortunately, Frankenstein fell to consider the consequences of this undertaking which is to find everything went wrong similarly. 

'what have I done'

       After too much struggle Frankenstein made a creature. He took body parts from many other dead bodies and stitched them. That's why this creature became too ugly and scary. Victor was afraid of his creation and kept coming back to his city. The creature was left alone. When the Creature went out, all the people became afraid of him and started beating him. The creature didn't understand anything. He saved his life at all costs and left there and came to a forest. 

          On the other hand, Victor announced his marriage to Elizabeth and gradually he started living his life. On this side, the creature saw a family in the forest, where the creature secretly helped them continuously and observed the people's speech and living conditions and learnt to speak from them. He developed intimacy with people, here he learnt that the One who created us is called our Lord. 

'He never gave me a name'

'He was my Father'

 He realized that Victor is his god but Victor has left him here alone so the creature went to find Victor to take revenge. 

'I will have revenge'

          The creature killed Victor's younger brother and asked Victor to create a female creature for him. Victor began to create the female creature but then realized this would be too horrible for society so Victor destroyed the female creature, then the creature threatened victor to kill his wife Elizabeth.

        On Elizabeth's wedding day, the creature killed Elizabeth.

Victor then recreated Elizabeth with the help of his science, but since it is a creature, she is unable to choose between Victor and the creature and burns herself.

       At the end of the novel, Victor dies on Robert Walton’s ship in the Arctic Circle. The boat captain finds his body and the monster who mourns Victor’s death in the room. The Creature disappears from the boat to kill himself. Victor and the monster die in the end. But the nature of their deaths is different. 

       Thus, we can say that a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, driven by vanity and thirst for knowledge, manages to give life to a creature whom he assembled from dead material. The creation of the creature backfired on Victor once the monster escaped. Victor’s life became obsessed with the monster because he could not control his creation. In the end, Victor lost everything from his pursuit to push science and limit of human knowledge.

     Frankenstein shows the issue that can come from technological and scientific advancement. It can be too much for human’s to control causing a spiral downward. I think that this book shows how important it is to understand the advancement of Science and Technology. A huge part of the novel is the fact that Victor is not able to adapt to his creation. He did not take care of the monster or provide him with a partner. He brought the monster to life, but in the end, victor could not control his creation and he lost his everything.

I write another blog about questions - answers of 'Frankenstein' given by yesha ma'am, I'm attaching it here. 

Questions-Answers (Frankenstein)(Click here)