According to DVD commentary for this film, director James Whale intended this film to take place in an "alternate universe" and therefore freely mixed 19th Century and 1930s technology, hair fashions, etc. Citations Henry Frankenstein: Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's...
“Mary Shelley is drawing on popular belief or at least desire—pretty much distrusted in her time but still part of the mythic landscape of scientific possibility—that beyond the rigors of exploration and the pursuit of geographical knowledge lay a place with treasures of prelapsarian bliss in ...
“She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself(Frankenstein):—“My children,” she said, “my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union. This expectation will now be the consolation of your father. Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my you...
by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the ...
films as i watch more hammer films, it strikes me just how sad so many of them are. innocents and lost souls find themselves in a similar place in the afterlife, and it never ends happily for them there either. here you have susan denberg, born with a facial disfigurement, taunted by...
and once that’s over and all my customer quilts have been returned for Christmas I’ll be working on this quilt. I’ll be setting up the layout once more blocks arrive as I want the balance of colours to work well and not have clusters of colour or concentrations in any one place....
I hastily fled to my newest place of work. I had inhabited the world with a second creation. This demon, though a woman, was more terrifying and hideous than the first. A monstrous creature created only for longing of a new beginning. A world where I would forget this horrible deed I ...
The film’s screenplay from Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh heavily condensed the initial book’s plot, taking a story that took place over a few years and setting it over a few days. Several plot points from the original novel were omitted completely, and the entire ending sequence ...
Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain. The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will...
Graham English Honors II: Frankenstein Final Research Paper 28 March 2024 Belongingness in Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart Belongingness is not just a state or a feeling, but a heartfelt connection to a place and its people. In Frankenstein, a monster that scientist Victor Frankenstein created ...