Title: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Year: 1994
Studio: American Zoetrope and Shepperton Studios
Paradigmatic conventions:
Setting: A Victorian village, Victor’s lab.
Character: Victor and Elizabeth. (Adopted siblings/ lovers)
Villain: A Monster made by Victor from the body parts of dead people.
Evokes fear: Something you have created turning on you.
Plot synopsis: Victor Frankenstein sets out to create a human that never needs to die after being mortified about his mother’s death at a young age. He sets out to create his version of the perfect man using the carnage of the dead, when life is finally brought to his creation he is disgusted by its ugliness and results to running away. Due to the feeling of loneliness the creature goes in search of a friend, he observes a family he comes across and becomes educated about man, with this he realises that he himself is different. Whilst many harsh encounters with man, he grows bitter in loneliness and decides to get back at his creator for making him ugly and unloved, creating havoc and spreading death among Frankenstein’s family and loved ones.
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