Lecture notes and thoughts on "Frankenstein" (both the 1931 Film Version and Shelley's Novel) and also Gothic theory
Title: Lecture notes and thoughts on "Frankenstein" (both the 1931 Film Version and Shelley's Novel) and also Gothic theory
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 2135 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Lecture notes and thoughts on "Frankenstein" (both the 1931 Film Version and Shelley's Novel) and also Gothic theory
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 2135 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Lecture Notes on "Frankenstein" and the Gothic
- Generally features strong elements of the supernatural, psychotic, sexually perverse or a combination of all three.
- Gothic usually featured dark, brooding setting: Damziels in distress.
- When Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" Gothic had gone out of fashion.
- 1818 Gothic played for laughs or reanimation.
- Shelley: no clear distinction between good and evil.
- She updates Gothic out of medieval world into her world. Fairly contemporary setting …showed first 75 words of 2135 total…
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- Gardener as monster constructive, creative member. Openly desired monster.
- Emphasises "Bride of Frankenstein". Draws attention to female companion, monster seeking a friend.
- An inversion of the gothic.
- Father/Son relations of healing type; in place of Oediple relations.
- "Gods and Monsters" gothic because it holds to paranoia model.
- James Whale (hysteric) - prone to being overtaken by hallucinations of the past.
- Clayton Boon is a classic paranoid.