“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.” – Polonius in Hamlet This blog is for the reflections, thoughts, rants, and discussions of Mrs. Caldwell’s Senior English classes at Mountain Brook High School. Come and check out the madness. There is method to all of it, I assure you!
Choose a movie and explain why you think it exemplifies the themes in Frankenstein. Be specific explaining movie, a short plot synopsis, why it relates to the themes of Frankenstein, and what parts of the book/movie represent this common theme.
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While I was reading Frankenstein, I constantly thought about the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks. In this movie, Tom Hanks is in a plane crash in which he is the only survivor. He is washed ashore onto a desolate island and begins to live his life there completely alone. Hanks reminded me of Frankenstein because they both lived in a world alone. Frankenstein did not have anyone to talk to and lived his life in solitude. The part of Frankenstein that most represents this common theme of solitude is when Frankenstein remains in his hut and learns about the world alone.
Frankenstein and the movie The Phantom of the Opera have many things in common. In The Phantom of the Opera, the opera ghost (the phantom) terrorizes the oprah house while manipulating a young girl. This is similar to Frankenstein because Victor manipulates the monster and the monster manipulates Victor by killing everyone close to Victor. Other theme that is similar is that they both have monsters which everyone is afraid of. I think that The Phantom of the Opera and Frankenstein have many similarities.
Frankenstein kept reminding me of Air Force One cause the main charecter in that movie is really evil and tries to kill the presidents family just for revenge. This is similar to Frankenstein in that the monster kills Victors entire family due to revenge for being lied to. It is very similar in that aspect. They also both have a monser in them as Air Force One has the bad guy in it that is related to as a moster. The president then does everything he can to kill the bad gu and hunt him down any way he can. This also occurs in Frankenstein when Victor swears to hunt down and kill the monster.
Hey Mrs. C,
Frankenstein reminded me of the Movie Edward Scissor hands. Edward was created by a mad scientist and taken in by a family, love by the community and eventually is shunned by the community. This reminded me of Frankenstein because both the monster and edward were deformed. They were both outcasts and unhappy as outcasts. Have a super day!
At first thought Frankenstein shares some common ground with Forrest Gump which I recently watched. The theme they seem to share is that of society’s shallowness. Forrest Gump is shunned most of his young life because of his outwardly appearance. He has to wear braces on his legs as a child and dresses and holds himself sort of awkwardly and differently from the other children. Because of these things he is left out from everyone else. The other kids just can’t accept him because he is “different”. The same holds true for Frankenstein’s monster. Because of his frightening appearance and differences he is not accepted by society. No humans will have anything to do with him. In both cases society’s shallowness prevents them from getting to know two good hearted people- the monster and Forrest.
Frankenstein reminds me of the movie The Core. In this movie, scientists create a weapon that is intended to create earthquakes in enemy countries. However the new technology backfires and the core of the earth stops spinning. It’s a very weird science fiction movie, yet it relates to Frankenstein. In both stories, scientists create something that they believe will help them, but both times the ends result in deaths. The theme of man playing nature is evident in both stories. The main difference in Frankenstein and The Core is that man is successful in saving the core and getting nature back to normal, but Frankenstein is unable to stop the monster’s killings.
Frankenstein is in a way like Jurassic Park. The scientist is Jurassic Park works for a long time to create dinosaurs. It’s cool and everything until the dinosaurs start eating people. The scientists are in way liek Dr. F. They created monsters without thinking of a way to effectivly stop them. After a while the dinosaurs are attacking people and running wild with no way for anybody to stop them. Now the people who are trapped on the island with the dinosaurs are like “WOW! what a great freakin idea this was.” Some of the people finally escape only to go back in the sequal and get eaten up some more. I guess people will never learn, dont create artificial people and dont bring back the most vicious species to ever walk the planet. It goes against God.
Frankenstein is like the movie Deep Blue Sea. The scientists breed a species of monster-sharks that end up harming its creators. Samuel L. Jackson plays a minor role in trying to control the outbreak of the sharks. LL Cool J is the chef for everyone on the ship and also has to help fight against the sharks. In the end Samuel dies and LL Cool J shoots the shark. Once again, man tries to play God and things turn bad for everyone in the society. Victor could not control what his monster was doing and eventually lost close family and friends.
Frankenstein is like King Kong in many ways. In King Kong the huge gorilla goes around terrozing the city and everyone is trying to kill him. This relates to Frankenstein because the monster that Victor creates kills alot of people and near the end of the book Victor chaces the monster everywhere in hopes to kill him. Another part that is the same is that the gorilla respects a lady and only wants to befriend her. This is like the monster loving Victor because he made him and Victor is the only person that the monster likes. In the end both monsters are killed.
Frankenstein has some similarities with the movie E.T. They both involve a creature who is the only one of its kind existing in an environment that is not suitable for them. Both of the creatures, the monster and E.T., are not accepted on first arrival mainly because of their outward appearance. They are both considered to be ugly beings because they look so different from the people on earth. The perception of these creatures is a bad one at first, but after getting to know what they are like, we see that neither of them are very different from us. They both desired relationships, and despite their appearances, which we would consider to be harsh, they are really not frightening.
Inceno Man would definitely have to be a good example of the Frankenstein theme. Two teenage boys in highschool discover a frozen caveman in their backyard while trying to dig a pool. They unfreeze him or rather he thaws out in their room and he goes crazy. When they return from school to find him having made markings all over the walls in mud and destroyed half their house, they try to control him. By using fire they gain his attention and from there on out slowly teach him how to speak or semi-speak english and how to act like a modern human. The illuminating theme in both this movie and the book would be control and misunderstanding of consequences to come. He becomes popular with their school and everyone likes him but in the end he is unhappy and wishes for a girl. Well, along with him they didn’t discover until the end, a frozen cave woman. She is unthawed and comes to life to be with the caveman. This ending is a bit different than the book but illustrates the same theme only with a happier ending.
The book Frankenstein reminds me of the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Both the book and the movie display the theme of exploring scientific progress. In the movie, the father creates a machine that shrinks things, and he accidently shrinks his own children. The father, like Victor Frankenstein, is extremely excited and proud of his invention. However, after his children are shrunk, he does not like it anymore. This is similar to Frankenstein because Victor creates a monster who ends up being very destructive and kills his family members. Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Frankenstein share the theme of science and progress.
Frankenstein is a lot like the movie iRobot. In both iRobot and Frankenstein, the destruction of knowledge is revealed. Mankind is very ambitious when it comes to science and does not think about boundaries. Something intended for good became very destructive. The robots were intended for good but grew resistant. It is never man’s place to try to make other beings. Victor’s creation was very imperfect and did not fit in society. Both Frankenstein and iRobot show the consequences of ambition in knowledge.
Frankenstien reminded me of a movie I watched called Men in Black. At the end of the movie it seemed that they were trying to desroy things that they knew were there all along. Like Frankenstien, the Men in Black for a long time let the Aliens live amounst the human much like the monster in Frankenstien. However, once the Aliens mess up, the Men in black decided to kill the aliens. Much like Frankenstien, the monster went a little to far killing all of Victor’s family so he vowed to kill him. This is one in the same, just killing things that don’t exsist.
The movie Van Helsing makes me think a lot about Frankenstien. Though, the movie does have the character, frankenstien, in it, it still resembles it in many ways. Its about a character who has faced many hardships in his life and he has lived in solitude his life researching and chasing vampires. He makes me think about victor in the way he lives in solitude and was just brilliant in all his actions such as creating his monster. The only difference is victor works hard to create a monster when Van Helsing works hard to kill a monster.
Reading Frankenstein just reminds me of the movie Dodge Ball a True Underdog Story. It reminds me of this movie because a monster is created when the main character becomes so good at dodgeball that he does not have to see what he is throwing at to win the game. A monster is created in Frankenstein and leads to Victor’s wife’s death. Being a monster can mean anything really. A monster can be a person that is really ugly and represents evil. Also, a monster can be a person or thing that represents something that means something to you good or bad.
Frankenstein is a lot like the movie Die Hard With a Vengeance. In this movie, Bruce Willis is like Dr. Frankenstein because they both create something that comes back to hurt them. Bruce Willis kills the terrorists brother and this causes the terrorist to mess with him and kill a lot of people. They are also alike because innocent people die and because one of the bad guys has a really messed up face. And this one time Bruce Willis jumps off a bridge and rides down this cable to a ship that is in the water hundred’s of feet below and he gets this huge cable splinter in his arm, and one of the gaurds on the boat gets cut in half and that is like how Dr. Frankenstein felt for the monster because he created him and then he had to kill him because it was his responsibility. It is also a lot alike because Bruce Willis pushes people away in the movie and kind of isolates himself the same way that Dr. F does in the book. But seriously, Die Hard is an awesome movie, you should show it in class and we can discuss how it correlates with Frankenstein. That was a pretty sweet word. Bye.
When I think of Frankenstein I think of IRobot. One of the main themes of Frankenstein is that humans should be careful with issues that are refered to as “playing god”. We are always afraid that if we create another race of man or machines they will overcome us or cause some type of chaos like that. In IRObot exactly that happens. Robots built with artificial intelligence become too smart and overcome the humans who created them. It reflects a threat that is real though not necessarily inevitable, if humans continue to dable with “playing god.”
While reading Frankenstein, I was constantly thinking of King Kong. There are so many similarities between King Kong and Frankenstein. In King Kong, men go somewhere they were never meant to be. Then, they bring back a monster that was never meant to be among humans. This messes up the natural balance of nature and the monster wreaks havoc on man. This follows the theme in the book of man going to far and trying to do things that they were never meant to do.
When I was reading Frankenstein I was thinking about the movie Fight Club. Fight Club is a movie about how one character finds out who he really is through his alter self. He feels as though he is a monster because he can’t really figure out who he really is. He pictures himself being beat up when he really isn’t at all. Everybody else in the world is looking at him like a physco or someone of lower status. He fights through that though and finally learns about himself when he kills his alter ego. He its seems is just like Victor and Frankenstein.
I think the book Frankenstein is a lot like the movie Jurassic Park. The theme of playing God and creating things that should not be created by mankind is consistant in both. Also the things that are created to not work at as planned and go around killing the people that created them. Both of them seemed like good ideas that would not fail, but in the end they turn into awful ideals. Both were meant to be for good but only caused mass destruction for the creators and the ones close to them.
Hal stole my idea so I am have to go with another movie….My choice is BILLY MADISON due to the fact that they both struggled in there school settings. At first Frankenstein just like Billy was very rebellious to there schools they attended. But both found a teacher that seduced…into loving what they were learning. For Billy Madison just like Frankenstein his goals take over his life, that is all he is concentrated on. Also throughout the book Frankenstein has episodes of going crazy just like Billy did when he saw his penguin, it has been said that Adam Sandler read this book before playing this part to study what he should act like. Billy Madison also has a predominant figure of his father wanting him to follow a certain line and study something certain just like Frankenstein’s father had him do when he didn’t allow him to read those books, but Frankenstein just like Billy didn’t care for a while to listen to his father.
A movie that reminds me of Frankenstien is Star Wars II. Because when the evil count duku is making a clone army it reminds me of Frankenstien making the mostor. The clones are ment to do good bu then later in Star Wars III they turn evil and destroy all the jedis.
The movie American History X reminds me of Frankenstein. Edward Norton’s character starts a racist organization in California and is eventually incarcerated for killing two gang members. While he is in prison he realizes how wrong racism is and tries to reform his life. When he gets out, he struggles with being accepted back into society and leaving the organization he created. It relates to the book in that the main character in both is trying to get rid of a monster that they created.