The Bride of Frankenstein

The Bride of Frankenstein shows how humans played the role of God by bringing back artificial life from the dead and therefore creating it. Henry Frankenstein was believed dead and also the monster when a mob lit up and burned their house down. But it was not the case, and the monster rose up and killed a few people and after the chase and pursuit, he finally found home in the lone blind hermit’s house in an isolated area. However, when two hunters incidentally found out where the monster was, and he was left by his only friend or his friend was taken away. He then was left alone, until he found Henry’s former professor and then ordered to make a mate for him. After negotiation and kidnapping of Henry’s wife, the mate of the monster was brought to life…only to find out that even a monster like him hates him too. This made the monster feel a series of negative emotions – depression and sadness, and anger perhaps. Henry’s wife rushed to Henry and the monster let them leave, and with a pull of a lever, the monster, his mate and the professor supposedly died from the explosion.

The film showed how ethics and science should be: not separated, but together. Science has an endless journey and they might come over to those which morality forbids. Creating life was like playing God and I know common ethics would be against that. Even the creation, the monster, wanted to communicate with the human race and he did really close with the blind hermit, but later on, he failed again. In the end, he chose that a monster like him and his created mate were not supposed to live any longer, and he took the foolish professor who wanted to be god together with their death.

I think that monsters who were as smart as the real monster in Frankenstein might be idolized may be one of the reasons why the monster was made dumb in movies, movies being the ones more watched than that of books read. Certainly, the depiction of the monster as a mindless killing machine would endorse a more negative view on monsters rather than a emotional monster like the one in The Bride of Frankenstein who was able to think like or more humane than humans themselves. It did work, however, this depiction somehow showed less of the original lesson the book wanted to bring about.

Reyes, Paollo Deo R.
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