Mr. Branagh has said that he intended to make "less a horror film than a larger-than-life Gothic fairy tale." So his "Frankenstein" achieves a quieter version of Ken Russell's pop grandiosity, with little Victor Frankenstein growing up in a house that pointedly resembles a stage set. Victor's story is told in flashback, beginning in the movie-studio version of an Arctic wasteland, where the adult, ruined Victor (Mr. Branagh) tells his life story to a ship's captain (Aidan Quinn). Lets discusses the differences between movie and the Novel ;
1)In the book Henry and victor are childhood friend ; Victor initially goes to Ingolstadt alone, but Henry joins him. there after several year. but in the movie Victor meets at Ingolstadt.
2) In the movie Victor's mother dies while giving the birth, when in the book Victor's mother dies from Scarlet fever.
3)In the book, Victor had another brother where in the movie Victor is Two brother one is himself and second is the William.
4) The Monster saves a young girls in the books, not present in the film.
- Did this movie help you in understanding the plot of the novel?
yes
- Who do you think is real monster?
According to me, Society and Victor is the real Monster. because when monster was hungry, he went to the market and he saw the piece of meats. people things that he was a larceny and after they beat the monster when he did not injured them. and sent him as far as them. they did not accept them because it is ugly but I thinks that how many of people is too ugly in the society. and also now a day people has doing plastic surgery, and also we find some accidental case they also became a ugly. why people have accept this type of people and why The monster not. second thing is that some one says that Victor escape from his responsibility but i think he did not because when He was ill and awake up from his bed first of all he asked his friend about to the situation of outside and the Henry told that there were fatal virus, and people have died. so Victor thinks that The monster also died. thus according to me the real Monster is Society.
- From Where Mary Shelley get the idea for the novel Frankenstein ?
Mary Shelley was traveled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes place and the topic of galvanism. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamy about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the novel's story.
- Do you think the search for the knowledge is dangerous and destructive?
No, it does not matter, because the knowledge is the Golden key of the life and without the key we can not solve the problems of life. of course uneducated people also live a life but I think educated person lives life better then other. and of course some people says that knowledge is dangerous and destructive. of course we learnt the Dr. Faustus, and also nowadays we are learning the Frankenstein. if it is true so the Plato, Aristotle, Socrates etc has a good knowledge so some this knowledge will have became a dangerous! and so nowadays we finds a lot of engineer, doctor and scientist everyday searching and making and doing experiment. I think people has learning from experience and experience is teacher of human beings. so according to me the search for knowledge is not Dangerous and destructive.
- What are some myths used by Mary Shelley in the Frankenstein?
There are three types of myths used in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
- Paradise lost
- Narcissism
- Myth of Prometheus
- Write about the narratology of the Frankenstein.
In Frankenstein main novel created like box within box narration . First Walton narrates this to his sister , second Frankenstein narrates all the things to Walton and last Monster narrates all the novel. In this Shelley uses thematic search in the story for something deep dark and secret at the heart of the narrative. It is written in 1st person narrative but there are 3 1st person narrative.
- http://thatwasnotinthebook.com/diff/frankenstein-vs-may-shelley's-frankenstein
- https://www.skuola.net/letteratura-inglese-1700/iglese-frankenstein-the-novel-and-the-film.html