While doing the experiment, Frankenstein uses the bodies to make the monster's appearance, but the last step of giving the monster life is totally different from that in the novel. ... However, Frankenstein thinks the monster comes because he wants to take away his life. ... Concerning moral lessons about family issues, the moral lessons regarding family in the film are more worth pondering for the readers than that in the novel. ... In sum, these moral lessons about family issues are conveyed through the novel. ... In conclusion, compared with the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and t...

• Word Count: 1921
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

As doing the experiment, Frankenstein uses the bodies to make the monster's appearance, but the last step of giving the monster life is totally different from that in the novel. ... However, Frankenstein thinks the monster comes because he wants to take away his life. ... Concerning moral lessons about family issues, the moral lessons regarding family in the film are more worth pondering for the readers than that in the novel. ... In sum, these moral lessons about family issues are conveyed through the novel: Parents must take their responsibility to their children. ... In conclusion, co...

• Word Count: 1922
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

The connections, and relevance it has to today's modern society and the lessons that can be learned from it, is what classifies it as being classic. ... However, its concerns with radical social reform, along with the workings of the imagination and an interest in nature, Frankenstein identifies itself as a classic Gothic novel with important links to the Romantic movement. ... It is important to note that the setting in the novel is very much concerned with nature and how it reflects the characters. This aspect links the Gothicism of the novel to the Romantic period, a period closely...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel follows the tragic story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientific prodigy, who discovers to secret to life and who uses it to bring to life a creature whom he assembled using various dead body parts. ... Yet, later on, as the creature becomes aware of how he came to be and is confronted with the cruelty of society, he decides to seek revenge on Victor Frankenstein's family and wreaks havoc upon the life of his creator. ... "My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence  into the search of the philosopher's stone  and the elix...

• Word Count: 1600
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the beginning of the novel, Victor discusses his background. ... Victor now knows that his future will be with science. ... The creature reads novels and tries to learn by emulating the cottagers. ... Victor's life is consumed with the thought that the creature he creates is still alive while his innocent bride is dead. ... Both Frankenstein and his creature come to learn one final lesson: revenge cannot satisfy the heart's loss. ...

• Word Count: 1757
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The scientists of today propose to create life from life. ... Is there a lesson in this for modern Man? ... Learning the secrets to creating life inevitably provides lessons to extending and improving life. ... Like a parent with a problem child, the decisions are generally made with the best intent but may not meet the needs or satisfy the urges of the new individual. ... At the end of the novel Victor relates his story to Walton to prevent him from making the same devastating mistakes that he made. ...

• Word Count: 1596
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The lack of a nuclear, loving family compelled Mary to desire the life of those who had what her family was unpredictable in giving. ... Her most famous novel, Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus, is the prime example of her depressing life. ... Benson the music master who gave the children weekly half-hour lessons in singing and reading music"(11) Mellor states. ... Mary Godwin, first introduced to Percy on November 11th when she was just fifteen years old, fled with him only two years later along with her stepsister, Jane. ... Traveling the country with Percy and others, Mary grew mo...

• Word Count: 1927
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his creature and flees, rejecting it as a demon. ... Though his time with the DeLacys first incited his desire to share in the feelings of others' joy, he left feeling bitter, cursing his creator for granting him a life of solitude. ... Next, in his time with the DeLacys, the creature begins develo...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In her novel "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley asks her audience to consider the limits to which we can expand the category of human nature, and if her creature might be best understood as "human". ... Victor questions the principle of the cause of life, and realizes that, "to examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. ... Upon his successful discovery of life, he collects numerous body parts and begins the creation of his creature. ... It is then that the creature begins to pay close attention to the lessons that the cottagers give the woman on their languag...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate