Frankenstein Essays (1251 words) - English-language Films

Frankenstein Author is Mary Shelley Fiction 127 pages Copyright 1992 It was a dreary night in November. The yellow glow of a candle was lite in a small house. Inside sat a young man named Victor Frankenstein at his desk, staring hard at his notebook. Finally finished with his work having thinked he has discovered the secret of life. After he closed the notebook. He told himself there was only one way to prove his discovery is correct, it was by making a living creature live. Victor than put up his notebook, and went to the towns morgue. There he slipped into the graveyard in the back of the morgue. Working all night and day to find the perfect body parts to make a human being. For months he done this until he was finally done collecting all the parts he needed for his experiment. One day someone knocked at his door and he went to go see whoit was, it was a letter for him father telling him how much he missed him. In the letter it also told him how much his best friend Clerval, and his fiance Elizabeth missed him too. Tears welled in Victor eyes as he finished the letter. Ten minutes later , Victor arrived at the university. He entered the medical school hall, it was quiet and empty. So he started to work by opening his bag and taking all the things he needed for his experiment to work with. Many months later, Victor approached the large wooden operating table finishing up the last parts. The thing was a gigantic human. The thing on the table seemed to move, but it was only the moving of its shadow. Than when the time was right a explosive jolt of lightning came down into his room, and on the thing. Victor watched his creature eyes open. Shouting with great joy knowing that his creation lives. Victor rushed to the desk, unhooked the tubes and wires connecting the creature to the bottle-filled desk. He than tore away the canvas and looked square into the fae of the giant he had made. Victor was scared of his creature that he ran out the room. Pacing himself all night wondering what went wrong with the experiment, his friend came to visit him. Even before a word came out from Victor he fell on the street, so his friend took him home to rest. The creature still confuse not knowing what was going on started walking toward the forest. There he slept drank, ate, and slept for months until winter season was coming. One evening the giant spied a light through the dark forest. Hungry and cold, he walked toward a small little cottage. There was a little family living in there almost barely surviving. When the lights went out in the cottage the creature went around the corner of the house, and found a small hut to sleep for the night. When morning came he saw alittle crack that gave him sight of the entire house. Each day there the giant added words and ideas to his life by listening to what the people were talking inside. Each day he would help the family by bringing them wood, and rabbits leaving it at the front door. Without the creature help the family would of probably died that winter. The giant wanted to make friends with the blind old man cause he couldn't see his ugliness, to tell him he was the one who gathers wood and catches rabbits for them. So after the other member of the family left, the big giant went in to ask the old man to be his friend. The old man was happy there was someone new to talk too. But than his children came in and saw the giant they started beating him. So he ran out the cottage, an into the wood. Now angry knowing that he will never be loved he wanted to get revenge on Victor Frankenstein. While the next day when the giant ran into a kid. He asked the kid if he wanted to be my friend. The kid just told the giant to go away or his dad Judge Frankenstein will come. When he heard