Showing posts with label The Bride of Frankenstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bride of Frankenstein. Show all posts
Monday, 24 March 2014
TIME 09:05
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I’m feeling a little depressed right now, so I’m going to react to The Bride of Frankenstein in a different light.
Nobody wants to be rejected. We all want to be recognized not just by the ones we care about, but also by everyone we encounter everyday. We want to look presentable everytime we show ourselves in public. My point is, we all want to feel accepted.
Anyway, The Bride Of Frankenstein is a movie adaptation of Mary Shelly’s novel. In the film, Frankenstein was a monster created from the different body parts of several dead people, contrary to Mary Shelly’s version wherein Frankenstein was actually the scientist who created the monster.
In the film, the scientist attempted to create a girl version of Frankenstein so Frankenstein wouldn’t be lonely. Unfortunately, when the girl monster was finally created, she didn’t like Frankenstein. And that brings us back to my very first point. I really felt sad for Frankenstein. There are only the two of them and yet, his supposed-to-be wife didn’t like him! Just imagine how tragic that is :( I think neither  the bride nor Frankenstein is the monster in the film. It’s actually the mad scientist who is actually really mad for thinking of doing such things. >.<

The movie, in a way, is immoral. Bringing someone back from the dead is already immoral in itself, how much more creating two monsters with the use of random body parts from random dead people. It’s gross! Also, it’s not right because supposedly, only the powerful One can make a living creature.
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Thursday, 20 March 2014
TIME 23:26
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March 20, 2014


Frankenstein is a novel by Mary Shelley that revolves around a scientist, Henry Frankenstein, who successfully brought the dead back to life. The Bride of Frankenstein is a sequel to the first film adaptation. In The Bride of Frankenstein, Henry Frankenstein continues his experiments and attempts to bring another dead body to life, this time, a woman.

The story of Frankenstein shows that limits should be set and should be followed in science. Boundaries should be set when it comes to fiddling with life and death. Scientists should have a sense of balance between morality and science. They should know what to experiment with and what not to. Morality has a vital role in science and should be kept in check. Experimenting on something that does the impossible is a very tempting thing to do because of all the possibilities that come with it but it also blurs the line between us and God.

In the film, the monster was able to speak some words to convey his thoughts and his motives behind his actions. This creates a chance for him to connect with the viewers so that they could better understand the motives of the monster. For me, it is a better approach so that the monster is actually a character in the story and not just an object that needs to be fixed.
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TIME 22:42
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Frankenstein (1823) is a novel by Mary Shelley about a scientist who brought to life a monstrous creature. The Bride of Frankenstein is a sequel to the1931 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel having the same title. In this sequel, both Henry Frankenstein and his creation have survived. Together with his former mentor, they begin on experimenting the creation of life again, creating the female counterpart of the first creation, only to reject him.

The story depicts on how science have crossed the social-science boundary for the sake of achieving a certain goal --- life creation; to a worse extent, playing god. It somehow indicates that we shouldn't be little devils in trying to achieve a different level of scientific success, throw away your morals and go about resurrecting the dead to create a different life form. Our morals should stay intact with whatever we do to avoid chaos and misunderstanding.
There is a prominent gap between morality and science. As we talk about science, things that come to mind is about rationality and practicality; reality, the same goes to morality in the sense that we have our 'conscience' doing the work; the moral principles of man. It is essential for the two to have balance so as not to lead into transgression.

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About Frankenstein being mum, the novel had no other way of showing how and what the monster thinks or feels. In the film, the creature was able to say words but still incoherent. It was to portray a difference between a regular human and a creation of a human like himself, to show superiority. It was for the viewers/readers to comprehend what was being conveyed.           
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014
TIME 23:25
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Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley in 1823. It revolves around the idea of science fiction, goth, horror and romance. It has a film adaptation of the same title, directed by James Whale. It had a sequel entitled Bride of Frankenstein, which we watched in our STS class.

Frankenstein was a product of the innovations of science through the brilliant mind of Dr. Henry Frankenstein who tried to find the key to eternal life and immortality by experimenting the dead bodies and subjecting them to lightning, as the high energy source.

This literary work exposes to the readers the connection of science and ethics. It is an example of where morality comes in traverse with the advances of technology. Frankenstein was said to be a mere fruit of science and yet we see, as the movie progresses, that he too has his own feelings and innocence.

This creature destroyed many lives and yet his creator and Dr. Pretorius tolerate it by trying to make another one like Frankenstein. This shows that science must always be coupled with ethics in order to function for the betterment of society and not for its destruction.

Frankenstein was depicted as a non-intellectual being in such a way that we can obviously distinguish the difference between a man and its creation. This just goes to show that no one can ever perfect and succeed in the copying of a human being.

All in all, the film and the book Frankenstein gave emphasis on the priority to partner science with ethics no matter what the situation may be.
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Saturday, 8 March 2014
TIME 22:14
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One of the classic sciene fiction stories is Frankenstein. It shows how a man/monster was created by Dr. Frankenstein from body parts coming from different dead bodies. There also is a version wherein he was given a wife; a woman 'raised from the dead', who was made to be his companion. The experiment was a success. However, the Frankenstein monster was rejected by the woman who was supposed to be his companion. What the movie depicted was stretching the limits of morality. Bringing someone back to life isn't exactly immoral, as it is seen oftentimes in emergency rooms with doctors trying to revive someone using a defibrilator. It is, however, another issue when you try to create life from organs of different dead people, much more create two.

In the movie shown in class, the monster was shown as dumber and slower as a means of making it less violent and more as a low-functioning human. It did work in a way that the movie will be okay for kids to watch as long as they are under parental supervision. In my opinion, the story should never have been told to the general public in the first place.
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Sunday, 2 March 2014
TIME 11:59
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Science and morality sometimes, if not most of the time contradict each other. Science strives to generate more knowledge and along that process, morality is forgotten. In the movie, The Bride of Frankenstein, the obsessed Dr. Pretorius, coerced Henry Frankenstein to make another monster, the bride of Frankenstein. Due to the pursuit of power and science, Dr. Pretorius did a lot of immortal acts such as unearthing corpses, experimenting on humans without their consent, manipulating others, and kidnapping a person. But in the end, all the efforts of Dr. Pretorius are wasted because the supposed to be bride of the monster did not want to be with the monster.  This showed us that science should never be used alone. There should always be morals and ethics that guide you towards knowledge.


The creations of Henry Frankenstein and Dr. Pretorius are called monsters by the townspeople because they are different. In the movie, the monster showed that he is just misunderstood because the monster is slow in terms of the mind and cannot speak at first. But with the help of the blind man, he learned how to communicate and express his feelings. The blind man showed that our eyes and our prejudice prevent us from accepting things that are different and that challenge our norms. If we can only have an open mind, we can have a better and accepting world. 
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Thursday, 27 February 2014
TIME 07:35
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Science and Technology has come to a point that it is made possible for humans to generate answers to questions that should have not been answered in the first place. As time goes by, we become more and more obsessed in reiterating and discovering how things worked, how they work, and how they will work. People tend to satisfy their curiosity by pushing the boundaries until there is no limitation left. With these in mind, we come to the inevitable: Where does the line of morality lie in the pursuit of curiosity?


As early as the 19th century, quite a lot have taken to illustrate the consequences of pushing Science and Technology beyond the limits through novels, books, and other forms of media. Even after, these “reminders” only increased in number. In 1935, a movie adaptation of the Bride of Frankenstein was one of these reminders. Through this film, we are exposed to the truth that people are capable of doing the impossible through S&T but there some of them should remain as such. Giving life to the dead was made possible in Bride of Frankenstein however the events to follow were dire – people were in panic, the town was destroyed, even the creature itself was in a depressed state. And while the creature was made incoherent in the movie, his actions proved to be a representation of his miserable life as much as his words. After all, actions speak louder than words.
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Tuesday, 25 February 2014
TIME 12:18
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Frankenstein made a monster out of dead and rotting body parts, based both on the book and the movie. Both of these materials show how immoral Frankenstein is. How could a person build his own creation out of rotting body parts? The bodies deserve to have a decent place where they should lie and these bodies have the right not to be disturbed. Frankenstein didn’t respect the owners of these bodies which only showed how immoral he really is. Also, these two materials both showed what science was like before. Moreover, it showed how people think how extensive science can be that through lightning, stitches and complete body parts can create and give life to a new human-like creature. People, before or maybe until now, think that as science flourishes so does its power to create new things, even living ones. This is why, it is shown that Frankenstein was able to create a human-like creature. To think about it critically, how could a creature/monster with no feelings be able to develop emotions and knew that it needs a partner in life, a companion to be with and that is of the opposite sex (or maybe in the image of a girl)? And with that also, how can he feel the anger with his creator and decided to kill the brother of Frankenstein. Well, this only shows that really, experiments are not always successful or perfect. Frankenstein created a human-like creature and in turn became the villain or the enemy of humans.
                In the book, the monster was able to learn and speak in French by listening to a family he found in a remote cottage unlike in the movie, he only learned a few words. I think the reason why in the movie he was made dumb is because, it wanted to show how people will misunderstand him and will fear him because of the grumbling sounds the he can only make. The movie wanted to emphasize how the monster was greatly misunderstood not only because of his appearance but also because he cannot speak of words. Also, the movie wanted to show how hard it was for the monster to interact with humans making him in a sense (, and I don’t know how but he was able to develop deep emotions) angry at his own creator. Because of these, I think, he being a monster was greatly emphasized in the movie and also it was clear that judgment really affects the society’s perception as a whole. I also think that stereotypes and prejudice are clearly shown in the movie.
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