Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein and Tim Burton's film, Edward Scissorhands has an abounding amount of similarities. They both hold the same plot and alike characters. But they do have some differences. Frankenstein and Edward Scissorhands are both similar creatures with odd human characteristics that were never taught the ways of the human life, which made it difficult for them to fit in, adding on to what they look like and act already. In each story one person goes out of there way to help this creature, to make them feel accepted, but there was also much hatred put against these creatures punishing their innocence. “People are afraid of me because I am different”. - Edward Scissorhands. He was aware that people saw him differently, but he saw people like he saw himself and treated them all like family. …show more content…
He is taken from his house by a well meaning mom and is taken in by her family. The neighbors were curious and liked the fact that he was different. “Don’t let anyone tell you you’re handicapped” “Who’s handicapped, my goodness, you’re not handicapped you’re, what do they call it, exceptional”. The neighborhood invited Edward into their lives and wanted him doing things for them. He helped them every chance he had. But he was eventually taken advantage of and betrayed by the people he cared about. Edward was manipulated to do something wrong that changed him to think to do the wrong things. Which made people see Edward in a different
I can compare Frankenstein to the movie I saw by Tim Burton, Frankenweenie. They are similar but instead of a human body, it was a dog and the mad scientist was a young boy named Victor Frankenstein. The young Victor Frankenstein brings his dog back to life after being hit by a car for a science fair project while the real Victor Frankenstein wanted to create a real life human. Just like the real Frankenstein monster, the dog brings trouble. In the book, the mad scientist, denies the monster but in Frankenweenie, the young boy convinces his family and friends to like his creation. Some of his classmates had known the young Victor Frankenstein creation and was intrigued to do the same experiment like his but it went out of the standards of
The monsters Grendel and Frankenstein have many qualities that links and separates them from each other, after you have read these two books you begin to realize the similarities and the difference of their being. The two monsters have gone through many similar events in their lives but they have also gone through events that have separated each other from one another. It showed us that even though you may have come from different backgrounds, you can still have the same life as each other. These two monsters show us that even though you may look like a monster on the outside inside you can be a complete different person.
Grendel and Frankenstein do share some characteristics with each other. They both want to have friends and not be alone. They are hated by others because they are different from them. They can never fit in with society because they are different. In their story they start to think of ways to treat others from how they are treated, so it is the humans fault for why they are being hurt or killed.
After recalling the journeys they pursued in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the protagonist Victor Frankenstein and his creation The Creature reflected on their inadequacies. The self-comparisons to fallen angels also revealed irony within their analogies. Despite both Victor’s and the Creature’s views of one another as polar opposites, they had countless similarities. Between the Creature and Victor Frankenstein, the latter was correct in his comparison to the “fallen angel.”
Both characters are called Dr. Frankenstein, and both made a monster out of dead body parts. Both doctors kind of inlove with death, which forced them to create a monster. In Shelley's novel, and the 1931 film frankenstein, the doctor is going to marry the Elizabeth. Another sameness between that film and the novel is that Dr. Frankenstein
The 1994 movie of Frankenstein explains the story of a slightly mad scientist who goes through a hard point in life and creates a creature known as “The Monster. This causes the scientist known as Victor Frankenstein to go through the consequences of a person trying to play god. But this movie is only the cinematic adaption of the book that was published in 1818. Though the movie visualizes the story of the book uncanningly, it has parts within it that doesn't exactly correspond with the book. These changes from book to movie are both big and small when it comes to effect within the story and outside it.
Ever since its publication in 1818, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, has been deemed a cautionary novel on the consequences of experimenting with life and the dangers of playing God. Shelley expertly focuses on the misery of Victor Frankenstein and the Monster in order to prove her point that playing God will lead to nothing but pain and sorrow. At nineteen years old, Mary Shelley produced a masterpiece that is still used as an example to argue today the negative affects of creating synthetic life. Shelley’s purpose for writing such a novel stems from many of her own life experiences and the influences surrounding her childhood and teen years. She rebelled against the previous writing period, the Enlightenment, and has left a lasting effect even on today’s very science based society. Through the influence of her friends and family, Shelley became a
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly and “Dracula” by Bram Stoker are two gothic novels that censure the Romantic and Victorian eras with supernatural elements in orderly societies. Both of the authors yearn to criticize the standardized expectations for males and females; ultimately, they alter those expectations with fictitious forces that can be able to cause conflicts with the norms. The Creature in “Frankenstein” is reckoned as a filthy and vile fiend in Victor Frankenstein’s eyes; hence, it becomes an exile in the real world. In another perspective, the readers can significantly comprehend the vast experience that the Creature acquires in a cruel society. Count Dracula, unlike the Creature, retains a historical family line in the past, but he
A multitude of signs illustrates similarities between the Frankenstein’s creature and Mary Shelley. These indications show that the novel may be an autobiography. However, the novel shows a lot of the characteristics of science fiction. The novel can be a real description or fiction narrative, but not both. An informed opinion about this controversy requires the evaluation of relevant critics. Sherry Ginn uses “Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein: Science, Science Fiction, or Autobiography?” to adequately argue that the novel Frankenstein is based on Shelley’s experiences and fears, that it is not an autobiography, and that it has all the characteristics of a science fiction narrative.
The two classic movies Dracula and Frankenstein both have very different stories from one another but the similarities between the two movies is the characteristics of their main characters. The main idea between the two movies is that they are both fascinated with creatures which are Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster that are irregular, dangerous, and abnormal from others beings in their movies. Frankenstein’s monster as well as Count Dracula both cause hazard to the other characters in their movies and cause harm to others, but there is a difference between the reasons that they are so dangerous. Frankenstein’s monster wants to be a part of society and stop getting rejected by society based on his appearance, while Dracula caused harm to the other characters in order to rejuvenate himself and to become more dominant.
The novel Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley in 1818. This gothic romance novel tells the story of a philosopher who discovered how to create life, without the full knowledge that his actions could cause grave consequences. Universal Studios made the film version of this novel in 1931. Unfortunately, the film version of Frankenstein has more differences than similarities to the novel. In the novel, Victor’s mental obsession seems to be more severe than in the film. The character of Victor Frankenstein was portrayed in both the novel and the film as a veriphobe, or one who is afraid of the truth, in this case, the truth of his actions. He
Have you ever wondered if the novels and the movies could have different interpretations of the story and it changes the meaning of the content? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein depicts a man named Victor Frankenstein who made a creature from a collection of body parts of dead people. He made the creature to fulfill his ambition but the creature turns out to be ugly and brutal. In Mary Shelley’s version, the main obstacle of the monster is his unpleasant appearance, but we can still see the monster’s humanity and his intellectual and eloquent speech in the novel. However, the interpretations in the films that about the monster are different from Mary Shelley’s version. The filmmakers heavily emphasize the monster’s appearance and his actions than
Frankenstein and the monster are also similar in that they are isolated and outcasts of society. Frankenstein became an outcast when he consumes himself in work. After he creates his creature he is afraid he will be looked at differently when the creatures outcome is ugly. He is also isolated when the creature kills those he loves. The creature is obviously an outcast because of his hideous appearance. He is also isolated because no humans will accept him because of his appearance.
Have you ever felt responsible for something that has happened to your family? Like you had a chance to do something about it but you chose not to? This is a common thought as many people tend to blame themselves for something that they no hand in creating, without reason. This is not the case in both William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In both of these pieces of literature the protagonists rightfully blame themselves for what happens to some of their family members as they either created what caused harm to their families or they did the harming themselves, albeit unintentionally. Hamlet is charged with the family duty of avenging his father, while Dr. Frankenstein should fulfil his obligation to foster his creation. Neither are able to fully execute their duties and their irresponsible nature causes their own downfall and the ultimate collapse of their family. The collapse of the protagonists and their families is brought on by mental anguish, a lack of comfort/love, and tragic death. Therefore, a son must obey the orders of a father and a father must provide guidance for his progeny to maintain the family unit.
.Frankenstein as well as Dracula together pact with the subject of fatality and restoration, formation and lapse, and the haziness of the limitations among existence and loss on the outside, both of them is gothic novels that rotate around the requirement of demolishing a monster. If we analyze closely it depicts that a lot of the traits that describe the monsters are basically the result of how the narration have conceded to us. The writers strain their opponent tales throughout the plan of the characters whose favoritism are readily obvious. We can also relate Frankenstein with “The ugly duckling “that how a parent after creating or giving birth to his own child rejects to accept him due to fear of the people or because of the dissatisfaction of his owns self. Frankenstein and Beauty and the Beast look completely different at first because one is basically a kid’s movie and the other one is a gothic novel. One is hopeful and light and the other is gloomy and mysterious though both of them have the same idea and concept as well as certain elements is used so that it gives us the understanding of novel. Ugly Duckling is basically about a small duck that is exiled by everyone because the baby duck was ugly. This can be compared by the