Creation of live

In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus the novel present some controversial themes like creating life, playing god’s role, the right to take a live, social rejection and revolutionary science procedures. This novel made a strong influence in horror movies so it is that are more than 10 Frankenstein influenced film. In 1994 Kenneth Branagh did a version of Frankenstein called Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein the intention of the movie was to stick as closely as possible to the literary source. The director and writers changed some parts of the plot, but the film still resembles to Shelly’s novel.

The creation of live or the restoration of it is a goal that mankind has been seeking for centuries. Reanimation in other words is what is sought in the plays. The definotion of reanimation refers to alleged supernatural phenomena in which the souls of deceased persons reinhabit their dead bodies and return to this world, usually to complete unfinished business. Science since Shelly’s time is looking for revolutionary ways of achieving live. In both plays victor is experimenting with revolutionary sciences in his time. Galvanism is one of the sciences use in the play. Shelley had a lot of science knowledge and her personal life was in touch with it. Galvanism is the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current. Aldini's experiments, includes attempts to revivify dead bodies, were sometimes carried out before the conferences in an almost theatrical atmosphere. Those spectacles were performed on humans and ox heads produced repeated, spasmodic movements of facial muscles, arms, and legs. He stimulated the heads and trunks of cows, horses, sheep and dogs. Aldini experiment with human bodies after the execution of them. Galvanism influence Shelly for the reanimation part of the novel which in the movie we are analyzing in this essay is modified with other types of procedures. In the novel Victor waits to a night with a electric storm to obtain the electricity from a lightning to reanimate his creation. In the movie Victor use electric eels to generate the power the monster need to become alive. The movie version also presents Frankenstein in a pool with amniotic fluid which this doesn’t happen in the novel and present the part were the monster became alive something that in the novel is presented with a spark that reanimates. In both plays Victor left the monster in the laboratory after is reanimated and regret what he had created. When he returns to the laboratory he found that the Monster is gone.

The monster learns the human language and behavior imitating a family he help with their harvest. In the novel the monster develop how to speak and read eloquent English watching a mother teaching her daughters through the window of their home. The monster educates himself with now classical books by Plutarch, Milton among others. The narrative of the monster is not present in the movie avoiding the conversations that formed his persona