This document provides an overview of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein. It summarizes the plot, in which Victor Frankenstein creates a human being but is horrified by his creation and abandons it. The creature has no name and is described in the novel using dehumanizing terms. The document also discusses some of the most iconic film adaptations of Frankenstein from the 20th century that helped turn it into a horror icon. It notes the 1931 film Frankenstein launched the character of the monster into popular culture with the famous line "It's alive!".

1. ALIVE AND KICKING!
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
First published in 1818

3. Title's speech
While surfing on internet, typing
“Frankenstein” on youtube. “It's alive!”
from the 1931 movie. I related the
sentence with the overnight success
song “Alive and Kicking” performed by
Simple Minds 80's band.

4. The monster
Victor Frankenstein is his creator.
He hasn't got a name which is the worst
thing of all.
Named in the novel as: the being, an abortion,
filthy creature, the fiend, hideous enemy,
daemon, devil, a wretch, well-known form...

5. Images

6. Images

7. The description
CHAPTER 13 Page 161:
“And what was I? Of my creation
and my creator I was absolutely CHAPTER 15 Page 171:
ignorant, but I knew that I
possessed no money, no “Hateful day when I received
friends, no kind of property. I life! Accursed creator!Why
was besides, endued with a did you form a monster so
figure hideously deformed and
loathsome; I was not even of the hideous that even you
same nature as man. I was turned from me in disgust?
more agile than they and could God, in pity, made man
subsist upon coarser diet; I bore beautiful and alluring, after
the extremes of heat and cold his own image; but my
with less injury to my frame; my
stature far exceeded theirs. form is a filthy type of
When I look around I saw and yours, more horrid even
heard of none like me. Was I, from the very
then, a monster, a blot upon the resemblance.”
earth, from which all men fled
and whom all men disowned?”

8. CONTENTS
Author Origins The plot
Selected In the 20th
paragraph century Horror icon
movies

9. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
During holidays in
Geneva Lord Byron
suggested to write a
1797-1851 ghost story.
Emotionally She was only 18.
undernourished.
Haunted by tragedy.

11. The plot
Victor F. was deeply engrossed with his occupation, studied
natural philosophy, structure of human frame, physiology and
anatomy. He conceived the idea and executed the creation of a
man, like the archangel who aspired omnipotence. He wanted to
create a human being, he wanted to be like god, because a man
who possess the secrets of life is GOD.
He collected bones and body frames from charnel houses,
dissecting rooms, slaughter houses...
The night in which the monster first lived, he achieved to give him
life, was utterly scared and escaped from him, leaving his
creation alone.
Victor Frankenstein is a shattered wreck because his misfortunes
and misery. He feels guilty about the crimes his creation commit
upon his family and friends.

12. Selected paragraphs
CHAPTER 16
Page 182:
“I have saved a human being from destruction, and as a
recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound
which shattered the flesh and bone....Inflamed by pain, I vowed
eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. But the agony of
my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted.”
Page 183:
“I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and
hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, “I too can
create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will
carry despair to him, and thousand other miseries shall torment
and destroy him.”

13. An icon and overnigth success in the
th
20 century movies
66 movies inspired the novel
31 tv series or episodes
Source: wikipedia

14. Dr. Frankenstein (1931) The bride of Frankenstein (1935)
James Whale

15. Frankenstein meets the wolf man (1943)
The curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Ruy Willian Neil Terence Fisher

16. Frankenstein's daughter (1958)
Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Richard E. Cuhna Howard W. Koch

17. Frankenstein created woman(1967)
Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Terence Fisher

18. Young Frankenstein (1974)
Frankenstein all'italiana (1972)
Mel Brooks Armando Crispino
Film horror parodies

19. La maldición de Frankenstein (1972)
Remando al viento (1989)
Jesús Franco Gonzalo Suárez

20. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(1994)
Kenneth Branagh
The most accurate to
the original.

21. The overnight success TV serie
The Munsters