Frankenstein

Frankenstein: A Look into the Book and the Movie

A movie director mostly the sole in charge of production choose to keep details in his movie that fits the details in the book. He may also choose to make to details from the book if perceived to be more fitting to an audience. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the movie had notable differences in education and similarities with the turning point which help create a better understanding of this complex story.

One of the main themes in the novel Frankenstein is education. Mary Shelley depicts the consequences that result when education is delivered improperly or is absent. She also stresses the importance of a parent's role as a teacher. Frankenstein did not recognize the importance of educating his creation with a sense of morality, and he failed to acknowledge his role as a parent. Parents are responsible for modeling appropriate behavior for the child so that the child can introject their values and become a constructive and productive member of society. They are also responsible for giving a child the skills for interacting positively with society. Parents are largely responsible for shaping their child into the person they are going to become because they instill moral values into them and teach them acceptable behavior. Had Frankenstein recognized his significant function as a role model and teacher, and had he taken the time to teach the monster to discriminate between right and wrong, his creation may not have become the source of the terror and destruction that occur in the novel. It is ironic that Frankenstein does not take time to educate his creation because he complains about his own father's failure to teach him. Victor says that when he shared his interests with his father about science, his father "looked carelessly" at his ideas and turned away. Frankenstein claims that had his father been responsible and taught him, and had he "taken the pains to explain to him" that there were other more practical sciences to study, he might not have taken the wrong turn and the pandemonium would not have ensued

In the movie and book the education focus around the Monster's observation of the De Lacey's, but in the movie the Monster was mostly just watching the family and human interaction, This resulted quite quickly in learning about reading and speaking and understanding human emotions. Movie don't usually go beyond the one and half our mark so this justify the rapid learning process of the Monster, in the other hand the book provides great detail in describing its education. During his stay at the De Lacey's the Monster studied four books which provided him an insight to its learning process. Volney's Ruins of Empires taught him about manners, government, origins of humanity and religion. Plutarch's Lives provided him with admiration and love of ancient heroes. Sorrows of Werter by Goethe enlightened him on domestic world. Paradise Lost by Milton: was about cosmic world.

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