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In writing Frankenstein, Shelley also drew heavily on John Milton's seventeenth century Paradise Lost, an epic poem that traces humankind's fall from grace. The epigraph of Frankenstein is a quotation from Paradise Lost, in which Adam curses God for creating him, just as the monster curses Victor Frankenstein, his creator.
Frankenstein presents family relationships as central to human life. Most of the families that appear in the novel—the Frankensteins and the DeLaceys—are perfect to the point of idealization. Meanwhile, most of the book’s horror and suffering is caused by characters losing their connection to their families, or not having a family in the first place.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 science fiction horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh who also stars as Victor Frankenstein, with Robert De Niro portraying Frankenstein's monster (called The Creation in the film), and co-stars Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Richard Briers and Aidan Quinn.
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear.
Frankenstein explores one of mankind's most persistent and destructive flaws: prejudice. Nearly every human character in the novel assumes that the monster must be dangerous based on its outward appearance, when in truth the monster is (originally) warm and open-hearted.
Frankenstein; hay Prometheus thời hiện đại là một cuốn tiểu thuyết viết bởi nữ tác giả Mary Shelley vào năm 1818. Frankenstein kể về câu chuyển của Victor Frankenstein , một nhà khoa học trẻ đã tạo ra một sinh vật có trí tuệ con người trong một thí nghiệm khoa học không chính thống.
Published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a Gothic novel that explores the disaster that ensues after Victor Frankenstein, a natural philosophy student, unlocks creation’s secrets and arrogantly brings to life a monstrous creature.
