ALIVE AND KICKING!

Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyFirst published in 1818

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While surfing on internet, typing Frankenstein on youtube. It's alive! from the 1931 movie. I related the sentence with the overnight success song Alive and Kicking performed by Simple Minds 80's band.

The monster

Victor Frankenstein is his creator.

He hasn't got a name which is the worst thing of all.

Named in the novel as: the being, an abortion, filthy creature, the fiend, hideous enemy, daemon, devil, a wretch, well-known form...

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The description

CHAPTER 13 Page 161: And what was I? Of my creation and my creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I look around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?

CHAPTER 15 Page 171: Hateful day when I received life! Accursed creator!Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.

CONTENTS

Author

Origins

The plot

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

1797-1851

Emotionally undernourished. Haunted by tragedy.

During holidays in Geneva Lord Byron suggested to write a ghost story.

She was only 18.

The plot

Victor F. was deeply engrossed with his occupation, studied natural philosophy, structure of human frame, physiology and anatomy. He conceived the idea and executed the creation of a man, like the archangel who aspired omnipotence. He wanted to create a human being, he wanted to be like god, because a man who possess the secrets of life is GOD.He collected bones and body frames from charnel houses, dissecting rooms, slaughter houses... The night in which the monster first lived, he achieved to give him life, was utterly scared and escaped from him, leaving his creation alone. Victor Frankenstein is a shattered wreck because his misfortunes and misery. He feels guilty about the crimes his creation commit upon his family and friends.

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CHAPTER 16Page 182: I have saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone....Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted.Page 183: I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.

An icon and overnigth success in the 20th century movies

66 movies inspired the novel31 tv series or episodes

Source: wikipedia

Dr. Frankenstein (1931) The bride of Frankenstein (1935)

James Whale

Frankenstein meets the wolf man (1943)
The curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Ruy Willian Neil Terence Fisher

Frankenstein's daughter (1958)
Frankenstein 1970 (1958)

Richard E. Cuhna Howard W. Koch

Frankenstein created woman(1967)
Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

Terence Fisher

Young Frankenstein (1974)
Frankenstein all'italiana (1972)

Mel Brooks Armando Crispino

Film horror parodies

La maldicin de Frankenstein (1972)
Remando al viento (1989)

Jess Franco Gonzalo Surez

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

Kenneth Branagh

The most accurate tothe original.

The overnight success TV serie The Munsters

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