The document discusses Mary Shelley's novel 'Frankenstein' (1818) and its 1994 film adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh. It highlights the narrative style, key character portrayals, and significant changes between the novel and the film, including the depiction of violence and the creature's emotional depth. The film is noted for its visual intensity and faithful yet modified representation of Shelley's themes regarding creation and loneliness.

3. INTRODUCTION OF NOVEL
• Frankenstein or "The Modern
Prometheus" is a famous novel written in
1818 by English author Mary Shelley.
• She wrote this novel at the age of only
18.The first edition was published
anonymously in London on 1 January
1818, when she was 20.
• Her name appeared in the second
edition published in Paris in 1821. She
named this novel because of getting
inspired from the ‘Frankenstein castle’ in
Germany.
• The genre of the novel is Gothic
literature.

4. FRANKEINSTEIN MOVIE(1994)
• 1994 is a science fiction horror film
made on Mary Shelly's novel
Frankenstein.
• This movie is directed by Kenneth
Branagh.
• It is considered as the most faithful film
adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel
Frankenstein; or, The Modern
Prometheus, despite several
differences and additions in plot from
the novel.

5. CAST OF THE MOVIE
Robert De
Niro
as
Monster
Director
Kenneth
Branagh
as
Protagonist
Victor too

6. NARRATIVE STYLE OF THE MOVIE
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-1994/
•This filmic construction – accelerated
montage – permeates the whole narrative,
along with the soundtrack and frontal planes
of the characters’ faces, especially the
monster’s, which define the tone of the film
in the generation of a violent drama.

7. NARRATIVE STYLE OF THE MOVIE
• Frankenstein films, brought to a fever pitch: The dark and stormy nights,
the lightning bolts, the charnel houses of spare body parts, the
laboratory where Victor Frankenstein stirs his steaming cauldron of
life.(VICTOR MAKES MONSTER)
• One of the most striking moments of the narrative is the encounter of
Victor Frankenstein and his creation in the icy mountains of Geneva.

8. NARRATION OF CREATURE
• The family gradually becomes aware that some sort of
forest spirit is befriending him - and the old
grandfather, who is blind, actually invites the Creature
in to sit by the fire. “This shows beauty in not important
but the inner soul is!”
• And he is thoughtful: "Yes, I speak, and read, and
think, and know the ways of man," he says, with an
echo of Caliban. And he asks, "What of my soul? Do I
have one? What of these people of which I am
composed?" The whole issue of the Branagh film is
concentrated here: Has Frankenstein created a
monster, or a man?

9. ROLE OF ROBERT DE NIRO JUSTIFIES
CHARACTER
• RobertDe Niro brings a real pathos to
the role, and there is agony when he
asks the scientist, "Did you ever
consider the consequences of your
actions?" And his loneliness is
palpable: "For the sympathy of one
living being I would make peace with
all." This make us feel of his extreme
loneliness.
• James A. W. Heffernan says in his
research paper that,”The creature
consists entirely of natural body part,
so that he is closer to an actual human
being. JSTORE ARTICLE

10. MINOR CHANGES IN MOVIE
MINOR CHANGES IN MOVIE
In the Novel, Justine is accused as the
murderer of Victor's brother, William.
However, the death occurs after a trial
and is not described by witnesses.
Indeed, Victor mentions the death and
moves on. In the movie, Justine's
hanging is graphically portrayed. Not only
is the hanging viewed by the audience,
but it is essentially a mob lynching with
no trial to precede her demise.
Monster leads to the death of
Baron Frankenstein in movie while
in novel Boron Frankenstein died
due to shock.

11. MAJOR CHANGES IN MOVIE
Elizabeth's corpse is briefly described in
the original source text, but her actual death
scene in which the creature strangles her is not
narrated. In the film, this thing narrated
beautifully and so effectively.
"If you deny me my wedding night... I shall be
with you on yours!" ~creature
Monster came there in their wedding
night.Her death is explicitly portrayed and is far
more graphic than her fate in the book.In the
film,the creature rips out her heart. He then
knocks her onto the floor, causing her to slam her
face against a nightstand with a candle on it. As
a result, her face and hair catch on fire.
Why is it
necessary?
To effect
audience

12. 1.CREATION OF FEMALE MONSTER:
Monster asks Frankenstein to create him a
mate in both the novel and movie. Though, the
monster does not ask for the body of Justine to be
used. Though, in the novel, Frankenstein does not
attempt to reanimate Elizabeth. Afterward, Victor
takes her corpse home to reanimate her, it is
clearly implied that Victor beheads her. The
camera lingers on him stitching her head onto
Justine's corpse. After her reanimation, the scars
and after effects of his surgery and the injuries
she sustained from the creature's attack are
clearly depicted. She then burns herself, once
Victor and the creature start fighting over her. The
camera again lingers as she runs through the
house, engulfed in flames, before plunging to her
death. In the film, it is not enough that Elizabeth
dies, she must die in a particularly graphic way,
not even once but twice
Why is it
needed?
https://youtu.be/x4x
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13. END OF MONSTER:
In novel monster goes to northern
place to die but in movie when
Frankenstein dies. The monster then
sneaks on board, gives an eloquent
soliloquy about his sorrow and leaps
off the ship onto an ice floe — gone to
find himself some wood and burn
himself alive.The closing scene of
Frankenstein is symbolic. It can be said
that in Victor’s death, the creature has
no more reason to live, since his
creator is gone and that is all he has
ever known. It can also be seen from a
biblical standpoint.

14. CITATION
Ebert, Roger. “Mary Shelly's Frankeinstain .” RogerEbert.com, 4
Nov. 1994, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mary-shelleys-
frankenstein-1994/.
James A. W. Heffernan. “Looking at the Monster: ‘Frankenstein’
and Film.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 1, The University of
Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 133–58,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344161.
RIDEOUT, TD. “Mary Shelly's Frankeinstain(1994)-Kenneth
Branagh.” Themindreels.com, 27 Mar. 2015,
https://themindreels.com/2015/03/27/mary-shelleys-
frankenstein-1994-kenneth-branagh/.

15. “Captain Robert Walton : Who are you?
The Creature : He never gave me a
name.
[he continues to weep]
Captain Robert Walton : Why do you
weep?
The Creature : He was my father..
THANK YOU
HAVE A NICE DAY