Two Versions of Frankenstein: Nature Versus Nurture James Whale's 1931 film version of Frankenstein provides a deep contrast in both theme and characterization to Mary Shelley's original novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. ... Both Shelley's and Whale's creatures have different reasons for their behavior, reducing the explanations to the age old debate of genetics versus environment. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

While he debates which "path to purse", a small girl runs out from the wood, from whom he hides, then, "her foot slipped, she fell into the rapid stream", the monster continues to save her and "restore animation" into her body, but this is to no avail, when a "rustic" comes to her supposed aid, he took the girl and "hastened toward the deep pat of the wood". ...

• Word Count: 2019
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate