love theme IN FRANKENSTEIN
I have chosen to focus on the film Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh, since it is the closest adaptation of the novel over all the Frankenstein films that is made. In addition to this, cinema authorities classify this film as horror, romantic and drama so love theme could be easily understood from this adaptation. However, it should be mentioned that the film has very big deviations from the novel which will be explained later on.
When we say “love theme in Frankenstein”, actually we refer to “lack of love theme in Frankenstein” since all the things in the story that is subject to horror and sorrow are coming from Victor Frankenstein’s hunger for love in his life. To start with our protogonist, Victor Frankenstein, it is not wrong to say that his relationship with his mother builds up the story. His oedipus complex is given from different point of views in the novel and the film, but they both completely gives the impotance of this psychological situation. In the film we see Victor’s strong relationship with his mother from his early childhood, and being the only child and only son for so many years made this relationship stronger.When Caroline Frankenstein dies while she was giving birth to William, Victor promised to find a way to re-create human beings after death, and this is the point where all the story ties up. Also it should be mentioned that after Caroline’s death, Victor places his adopted sister Elizabeth to his mother’s situation. Elizabeth was raised up by Caroline, and after her death she took over her positions in the house such as controlling and managing the household and taking care of newborn William.
The Essay on Frankenstein Film Adaptation Comparison
Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein greatly differed from the original novel written in 1818. Not only were certain elements altered however in addition, the personalities of several major characters, and how the audience portrays them was quite different. For example, the main distinction within the novel and the film are the role of women. In the novel, ...
Victor and Elizabeth’s change of relationship status can be interpreted as a transfer of Victor’s love for his mother to a love for his adopted sister. It can also be interpreted as an incestuous relationship through Freudian psychoanalitic thinking, from the scene of their wedding night where Victor was still saying “brother and sister” and Elizabeth was correcting him “no more brother and sister, now wife and husband”. In the novel, the most obvious proof of oedipus complex of Victor is his dream in which Elizabeth was changing into his mother’s corpse when he was kissing her. Caroline’s death and Victor’s reason of recreating a human body is given in the film so impressively and intensely that it has overcomed the non-existance of that dream about giving the clues of Victor’s oedipus complex.
It is certain that Elizabeth sees love issue from a totally different point of view than Victor. She is a typical woman of her age in middle Europe, who takes the “housewife” responsibility, places her lover ahead of everything and dreams about a happy marriage with children. When Victor decides to go Inglostadt to study and proposes her to marry and move with him, she rejects this proposal and decides to wait to have a real marriage in their own house, and takes the responsibility to set up the conditions for this marriage. It is important that when Elizabeth thinks that, in both novel and film, there may be another woman in Victor’s life she asks this barely and shows that she is brave enough to face this situation. In a plot like Frankenstein, in which woman gender role is nearly does not exist, Elizabeth breaks some walls and shows her unlikelihood with others as even trying to leave Victor when really realizes his job has a greater importance than her in his life. Here we had better to turn back to Victor, who during the research sees the monster as a replacement of a “love” object. His transferred love for Elizabeth was not greater than the obsession of his recreation ideal.
The Essay on Betrays Nature Victor Mariner Monster
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor betrays nature by creating the Monster. Itis the responsibility of nature, and not man, to create human beings. Victor has done something unnatural, he has created life after death, 'I have created a monster.' Victor is soon punished for interfering with nature when his own creation turns against its creator. The monster murders William Frankenstein, Victor's ...
When we come to our Monster, his situation in love theme is much more complicated and complex than any other character in Frankenstein. In the focus of Monster’s cruelity and non-humanity, there lies his hunger for a parental love. It is better to turn back to this issue after explaining his recognizition of love and family. After he escapes from his creator, he first recognizes his own ugliness when he sees his reflection on the water and than gives meaning to people’s strange attitudes towards him when they see him. The Monster starts to live near a poor family and sees here an example of happy family life with ideal mother, father, children and grandfather. In the novel, this recognition is much more complicated with mixing the family theme with otherness theme due to a Turkish girl Safie, but this is skipped in the film Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. While the monster was living near them, he learns how to read and write. In an abandoned cottage he finds three books and reads them, which are Paradise Lost, Lives from Plutarch, Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers, in addition to Victor’s diary. He gets mainly impressed by the Adam&Eve story in the book Paradise Lost by John Milton.
He considers himself as Adam, and Victor as the God. God created Adam and did not leave him, but Victor did leave. God created a companion, a female companion to Adam who is both friend and lover, but Victor did not. He thought that he was supposed to be Adam in relation to the plot of his life, but due to his creator’s irresponsibility and lack of care, he couldn’t be. And worse than no being able to be Adam, he was the “fallen archangel”. This realiziation of him brought the monster inside the Monster about and he decided to take revenge from his creator, who was responsible from his misery by creating him and leaving him. His revenges started with the murder of William. When he kills William, he sees the picture of Victor and William’s mother and takes it. He puts it near the sleeping Justin, who was raised up by Frankenstein family and madly in love with Victor, since he sees her and thinks that she would be a good companion to him, with saying “yes dearest, your lover is here” while she was asleep. She would be seen with the picture that was in William’s possession before, everyone would think that she killed William and she would be killed, it was the plan of the Monster and it happened.
The Essay on Human Life Adam Monster Victor
Essay Do you believe in miracles It looks as though the author of Frankenstein does. Mary Shelley has written a story about the creation of human life by the hands of a human being. This is easily compared to the story of Adam and Eve. In the book, Victor and the monster, are compared with God and Adam. In both stories life was created by hand, out of nothing. Both the monster and Adam asked their ...
Afterwards he demanded a female creature from Justines body from Victor. When Victor breaks his promise and gets married to Elizabeth in a hurry (with the fear of Elizabeth’s loss since she was about to leave him due to his overwork and postponement of their wedding for several times, and we see the hidden strong character of Elizabeth here also), the Monster does not leave them alone as he promised before, and kills Elizabeth. While he was killing Elizabeth, he says that “I have never seen such a beauty.”, this shows us the fact that it was only the Monster’s desire for a companion who would accept him, there was nothing special about Justine. Here Justine is not the victim of a passion of the Monster, but like all other victims, she is Monster’s revenge. After Elizabeth’s death, Victor understands the situation that there was nothing left in the world, to be a reason for him to live. Due to this fact, he creates the Elizabeth Monster, which will have conscious as opposed to our male monster and after this recognizition, will kill herself.
Lastly, Robert Walton should be mentioned. In the novel, Walton is an important character and we can make analysis of his character but in the film the focus is not so much on him. Some authorities think that since he respects Victor, and finds something in Victor from himself and says this, there is a homosexual desire of Robert towards Victor. This is of course a different point of view.
It is obvious that love is an important theme in Frankenstein that affect the haracterizations and the main plot.
