Monster Turns example essay topic

THE 124-001 Any Encinas When creating life; becomes your own demise In the film Frankenstein directed by James Whale, the main character, scientist Henry Frankenstein try's to play god in creating a life that turns out to almost kill him. The scientist goes to great lengths to complete his experiment, realizing too late that there are consequences for interfering with the laws of nature. He undeniably brings to life a most unnatural monster and flees in terror from the being that he himself has created. Feeling no responsibility to comfort the creature in any way, he instead wishes to completely abandon it and to forget that it even exists, leaving the monster to struggle alone in a world where it clearly does not belong. For people who haven't seen the entire movie they might wonder: is it really any wonder that his creation becomes slightly enraged at his abandonment and seeks to create for Frankenstein, his creator, a life equal to his own in misery and isolation? The beginning of the film starts out by a tuxedo ed gentlemen stepping out from behind a curtain and delivering a friendly warning to the audience, that what they are about to see "may shock them" or even "horrify them".

Then after the credits play, the film begins with the scene of a group of people mourning the death of someone. Frankenstein and his assistant Fritz, are hiding about to steal the newly buried fresh corpse for an experiment that Henry is conducting on the secrets of life. After digging up the body Henry sends his assistant Frit to his old medical school to steal a brain. Upon stumbling upon two brains that read normal brain and abnormal brain, Fritz happens to take the normal brain. Then he accidentally falls dropping the brain to the floor, forcing him to go back and take the other brain not realizing that this brain is abnormal. Because of this very important part of the film, the audience eventually comes to realize that by making the monsters aggressive behavior as a result of an abnormal brain, then one of the novel's, by Mary Shelley, centrals ideas is completely removed.

The monster behavior is not a reaction to its experience in life but biologically determined a result of nature instead of nurture. Violence and crime are often righteously rooted in personal deficiencies. Therefore the problem is no longer how to remove violent behavior, but the violent person, the monster, itself. The monster turns out to be sub-human and must therefore be killed.

To continue on with the film, Henry goes back to his abandoned watchtower with Fritz and brings the monster to life. After the first signs of life in the Monster, Henry declares "In the name of God, now I know what it feels like to be God". Soon enough Henry finds out that this creation is nothing to celebrate, but a tragedy awaiting. Fritz, the twisted dwarf takes cruel delight in torturing the creature.

He presumably hates the Monster because it reminds him of his own misshapen ness. Later the Monster breaks free from his chains and kills Fritz. Then he turns on Henry and Waldman (Henrys old professor.) Subsequently they decide to take action and inject it with a poison. At this point Henry, who was originally proud of what he had created, has become fearful of the horrible uncontrollable creature he has produced. Unhappy with the results of his experiments he heads home to be with his wife-to be and leaves the monster with Waldman. The Monster then awakens and kills Waldman by breaking his neck.

After this the monster escapes and goes into the village. There he goes by a lake where he attempts to make friends with a little girl who is by herself. (Her father also rejected her-as Henry rejected the monster) Then they begin playing by throwing the flowers into the lake. When their flowers are finally gone the monsters innocently picks her up and tosses her into the water. He is expecting that she is going to float as did the flowers but instead, she quickly sinks and drowns.

Confused it seems that the monster seems to be perceiving the horrible thing he has done. Then the monster goes to the bedroom of where Henry's bride is preparing herself to get married. Upon her screaming he gets scared and leaves. Henry and the rest of the village soon discover that the little girl has been murdered along with professor Waldman. Post-posing the wedding until the monster is killed; Henry and a large search part take to the abandoned watchtower to kill the murderous monster. Henry soon finds himself face to face with his creation and a violent struggle to survive ensures.

The monster gets the better of him by beating and choking him. Then he throws Henry to the ground but he's saved when a windmill blade breaks his fall. He eventually falls to the ground, but with less of an impact then he would have originally had. Upon seeing this the villagers set the structure where the Monster is trapped inside of, on fire. There the monster presumably burns to his death. Henry Frankenstein in the beginning of the film is captivated with the idea of creating life with his own hands.

He even says that "he knows what it feels like to be God". But shortly after creating the monster he soon discovers the downside of trying to play god. He creates a monster who in turn becomes a savage brute (not his own fault, he is the product of a twisted creation in which he receives the brain of an abnormal person.) Which in turn leads to the death of two innocent people. To give a good analysis of this film it is only fair that I describe the inconsistencies.

First of all how does the Monster know about Henry's bride-to-be and why does he go and attack her? Secondly, how is it that a villager knows his drowned daughter was murdered by the Monster? And Thirdly if the film takes place in Germany and Scotland which is implied with all the German and Slavic names than why does everyone seem to speak with an English accent. Such inconsistencies aside, Frankenstein will continue to be one of the most popular earlier films of all time.