Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

Analyse the 'creation scene' from Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and compare it to Kenneth Branagh's 1994 film version of the same. One of the key themes in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' is human arrogance. Frankenstein's curiosity leads him to play the role of God. In a way Frankenstein is responsible for the monster and has ultimately become a father figure to the monster. Frankenstein abandoning the monster leads up to it turning evil and looking for revenge. Therefore, …

…Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Branagh has done the same thing to the novel that many of the other Hollywood films based on the novel have done. Branagh has altered important aspects of the novel to suit a modern audience. It is because of these alterations in modern film versions that many people that have not read the original novel think that the monster is actually called Frankenstein when really Frankenstein is the creator of the monster.