On the evening previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully, "I have a pretty present for my Victor—tomorrow he shall have it." And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words ...
Victor Frankenstein was born in Naples, Italy (according to the 1831 edition of Shelley's novel) with his Swiss family. ... Frankenstein falls in love withElizabeth Lavenza, who became his adoptive sister (his blood cousin in the 1818 edition) and, eventually, his fiancée....
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But although these were all light and funny, even when watching them as a young child, Dracula/Frankenstein/The Mummy etc remained first and foremost horror characters and the enjoyment of those comical versions depended on knowing about the ‘real’ ones. I remember thinking that The Drac Pack...
After moving with her mother and father into their new home, Coraline Jones quickly becomes bored and irritable until she finds a strange door barely half her size that has been bricked up. Despite ominous warnings from her neighbors, she finds a way to crawl through the door after the ...
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into one another. As Fred Botting, in search of a wider Gothic structure inLimits of Horror(2008), states: “[…] fiction and film cross into everyday life, displaying the permeable, shifting boundaries between reality and fantasy and enveloping every social position. We are all Frankensteins...
opposites—young/old, healthy/sick, mobile/immobile, mother/son, male/female, life/death, victim/victor, guilty/innocent—myriad binaries visually rendered at the end of the film where Norman, Mrs Bates, and the car that contains Marion blur and dissolve into one another—a “Re-Creation” ...
Robinson Crusoe is a survival novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. In the novel, Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on an island and must adapt to his environment to survive. He rescues a slave whom he names Friday and then proceeds to turn Friday into his servant. When ...