For centuries the story of Frankenstein’s monster has been a source of entertainment and fear for people all over the world. Mary Shelley’s iconic novel has inspired songs, art, and Halloween decorations since… Continue reading
Frankenstein is a novel by Mary Shelley which has entered nearly every sphere of modern art. The novel has inspired plays, movies, sculptures, TV shows, and paintings. While its most famous iterations are… Continue reading
When most people hear “Frankenstein”, they think of a grunting, green, stitched-up mess of a man. As it turns out, the original author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, would have a few qualms with… Continue reading
The science fiction/crime procedural The X-Files (1993-2002) established itself as not only a popular culture phenomenon but as a staple of “quality television” – series that are fundamentally “high” culture and intelligent. The show boasts three… Continue reading
I recently watched the 1931 film adaptation Frankenstein directed by James Whale, and was quite shocked by the major differential, focusing on the themes of loneliness, guilt, and social repression, between the screenplay and the original… Continue reading
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s book Frankenstein has three different and distinct narrators in her novel. Each one carries a purpose in delivering the story of Frankenstein and his creation. One of the narrators is… Continue reading
FX’s American Horror Story: Coven appropriates Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in a modern retelling. The plot orbits teenage witch Zoe Benson and her fellow attendants of Miss Robichaux’s Acadamy for Exceptional Young Ladies, a… Continue reading
Literary monsters have made huge impacts on our society through their influence on books, television and most importantly films. Some of these literary monsters include Dracula and the bogeyman, but thereis one other… Continue reading
The story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has so permeated the literary and cultural world that its likeness can be found in multitudes of adaptations in every medium: literature, movies, and even television. Many… Continue reading
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is potentially one of the most iconic pieces of literature ever written, at least in terms of the sheer number of adaptations it has seen across an array of mediums in… Continue reading
Through the novel of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, we learn that the process that Victor goes through to get the body of his creation is almost over looked, rather not explained. The point… Continue reading
The Big Bad of season four of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the scientific government military institution of the Initiative and the horrible creation of its leader Dr. Walsh, Adam. The… Continue reading
A Journalistic Film Review of The Frankenstein Theory By Jeffrey W. Hollingsworth We’ve seen ghosts, demons, serial killers and even superheroes constructed into the found footage film genre, but now, classic horror icons… Continue reading
The character type that seems to really exemplify the gothic genre is the Byronic hero. Coined to classify characters like those in Byron’s works, particularly Manfred, and even Lord Byron himself, this particular… Continue reading
The concept coming from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is one of those stories that breaks through the standard exposure most literary works see and latches onto popular culture so that it sticks around… Continue reading
Henry Rider Haggard’s She is the story about a man and his adopted son and their sojourn to a far away place inhabited by a tribe and their goddess-like ruler that shows her… Continue reading
Since its first publication in 1962, Marvel’s Incredible Hulk series has entertained audiences in print as well as film. Despite the Hulk’s smashing success in recent years, Stan Lee’s bipolar superhero owes a… Continue reading
Throughout Frankenstein, Mary Shelley creates subliminal critiques on the enlightenment that Victor’s exploration strives to grasp throughout the tale. She provides critiques and curiosity that are long-lasting and well-rounded thoughts which prove the… Continue reading
The frame narrative that opens Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein bears several suggestions of Coleridge’s The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, both through the setting and via some direct allusions to the poem. The references… Continue reading
The monster in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, is often erroneously referred to as Frankenstein, and yet the creature is never given an actual name in the novel. Frankenstein’s creation is given many… Continue reading
Throughout Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, several themes come into play; knowledge, sublime nature, monstrosity, and secrecy to name a few. One theme that I noticed while reading the novel… Continue reading
The beauty of reading a work of great influence goes beyond the beauty of the text; it can also give us insight into the writer. Through reading Frankenstein we get a look at the… Continue reading
Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous progeny have hugely impacted horror and science fiction. However, much of contemporary cultural knowledge of the Frankenstein story has more in common with its subsequent adaptations than the… Continue reading
The Gothic novel capitalizes on bringing to life the horror of the fallen world. It relies heavily on setting and characters to demonstrate the total depravity of man. By taking a close look… Continue reading
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus is quite possibly one of the most continuously adapted texts of all time. Since its publication in 1818, Shelley’s text has been adapted for the stage,… Continue reading
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been adapted in an amplitude of ways for both the stage and screen. Often in the screen adaptations many different aspects of the original are changed however… Continue reading
One of the central features of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is the frame structure that encapsulates the entire tale. It is a particularly complex device, and features the narrations from several different viewpoints… Continue reading
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.” So are the words of the great Albert Einstein, and, in many cases, is quite true. However, for some,… Continue reading
