https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive That's not what the book said! en-us 2018-10-02 17:39:35 UTC 2018-10-25 16:16:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dootheets.png mlevick https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288285601 The famous scene from the 1931 version of Mary Shelley's famous "creature feature" FRANKENSTEIN is notably different than Chapter 5 of Shelley's novel. Create a PADLET where you choose  a QUOTE from Chapter 5 and explain how your chosen quote represents the CONTRAST of what the film clip presented.]]> 2018-10-02 17:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288285601 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288811658 The quote, from page 47 in chapter five, "His limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!" shows how the creature was supposed to be nice looking and not actually ugly and disfigured like in the film clip and victors words are much less exaggerated than in the clip as while he does repeat the word beautiful, that is more to convey that he was able to make dead body parts look decently good and that it was beautiful for what it was. As a contrast to this the film made him seem insane and crazy with the amount of repetition of the words "Hes alive." ]]> 2018-10-03 18:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288811658 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288815569 In the video Victor when Frankenstein comes alive he is filled with joy. The quote on page 48 "one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs" shows how Victor was scared. He ran away from Frankenstein when he came alive. This differs from the scene in the movie. They show totally different reactions. One so happy of that he can barely contain himself. The other scared for his life]]> 2018-10-03 18:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288815569 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288817818 "Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room" (47). In the quote Victor was so disgusted and shocked by the body he just re-animated that he couldn't even stand in the same room as it. However, in the film Victor was so proud of the creation he was having trouble constraining himself with excitement in front of the other three people. These two interpretations are clearly different because in one (the film) he is beyond beatific with what he has done, while in the other interpretation (the novel) he is so repulsed by what he has done that he has to rush out of the room and attempt to force himself in a sleep in order to forget what he has done.]]> 2018-10-03 18:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288817818 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288817856 On page 47 the introduction of the creature actually being alive is very different than how it's depicted in the 1931 version. Mary Shelley introduces the creature in this quote from page 47 in chapter 5, "It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs." The way that Mary Shelley introduces the creature is much more of a calm and way less chaotic scene whereas in the movie it's depicted as this very intense scene where there's lightning and thunder and Victor is screaming "it's alive! it's alive!" 

]]> 2018-10-03 18:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288817856 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288818739 in the video victor is excited and proud of his creature but in the book he has a different reaction. for example on page 47 he says "how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored from?" This shows that he knew his creation was a mistake.]]> 2018-10-03 18:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288818739 2019zrice https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288819324 "I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me..." (p. 48)
Victor in the movie was ecstatic with his discovery of reanimation, crying out about how he has become a god.
Victor in the book, however is so uncomfortable with the creatures presence that when it approaches him non-threateningly he leaves his apartment and walks the streets of Ingolstadt in the rain, musing to himself about how his creation isn't at all what he had hoped for.]]> 2018-10-03 18:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288819324 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288821207 There are two separate interpretations of "the creature" between the book and the film. In chapter five of "Frankenstein" written by Mary W. Shelley, Shelley describes the creature as "His yellow skin scarcely covered works of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes..." (47) At first Victor says the creature is beautiful, but within seeing the creatures full body he calls him horrid and flees the apartment. He is impressed with the proportions of the creature but he wasn't intended to be as ugly as he came out to be. He is supposed to be beautiful for the way he is and the way Victor created him, but Victor doesn't see this yet. In the film Victor is joyous due to the birth of the creature, and his reaction is very exaggerated as he repeats "it's alive" over and over again. Though it is in black and white so the audience can't really tell what colors he is in the film and if they are as described in the book.]]> 2018-10-03 18:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288821207 2019pklein https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288821208 In the clip from Frankenstein in 1931 is very different from the book because in the clip there is pure excitement and a sense of pride for his creation because it work he created life. In the book on the other hand Victor is disgusted and repulsed by the creature and this is a shock to Victor because he chose features that he thought would make the creature beautiful. Victor had "felt the bitterness of disappointment... "(48) because this creature was not what he had expected it to be. Instead of seeing it as a beautiful creature he sees it as an omen of evil and death.  ]]> 2018-10-03 18:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288821208 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288821452 On page 48 Victor states "I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the in the courtyard belonging to the house in which I inhabited." Different from the film Mary Shelley makes Victor afraid of the Creature. So scared of the Creature that Victor rushes out the house just to escape it. Where as in the movie Victor Frankenstein welcomes the Creature with joy and delight because he has become a creator of life.]]> 2018-10-03 18:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288821452 2019grolewicz https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288822897 In the film Victor is extremely happy when he sees his creation come to life, but in the book Victor is appalled by what he sees when he first lays eyes on the creature. "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i endeavored to form?"(47)]]> 2018-10-03 18:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288822897 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288824384 "his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was lustrous and black, following; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriance only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, the seemed almost the same color of dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips." (47) This shows that victor was horrified of the creature when he came to life in the book. whereas in the movie victor was ecstatic to see the creature alive.]]> 2018-10-03 18:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288824384 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288824552 "... But now i had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my hear."(Page 47) In the movie victor felt achieved for what he had created, there was a feel of successes for victor but in the book after creating the creature Victor felt appalled by what he had done as he describes the creature as a hideous being as like it was from a nightmare.]]> 2018-10-03 18:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288824552 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288825347 In the film from 1931 Victor is super excited to see his creation of the creature come to life. But in the book that's definitely not the case. On page 47 he states "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." This shows that Victor once cared for the creature but now the he nears the end of his creation he finds it unsatisfying to see such a monster. ]]> 2018-10-03 18:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288825347 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288825988 In the video Victor is shown exclaiming his success with great joy when the creature comes to life. He sees it begin to move and gets very happy telling those around him that he did it he created life from the dead and that he now knew how God must feel with his great power. In the book Victor isn't joyful of his success at all he feels the complete opposite. Victor feels disappointed when he realizes what had happened. He describes it as a "catastrophe"(47). Victor spent two years dedicated solely to bringing life to an "inanimate body" and now that he'd done it his heart filled with "breathless horror and disgust"(47). He wasn't proud of what he'd done he was frightened and he rushed out of the room in which the creature had came to life in. Victor tried to sleep to avoid the problem he'd created he did not show any excitement when the creature came to life like displayed in the video]]> 2018-10-03 18:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288825988 2019ndunning https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288826154 In the film victor is filled with joy he is fueled by the creation of the creature actually working. In contrast to that in the book he uses the quote "but now that i had finished ,the beauty of the dream vanished ,and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" This quote shows the drastic change his emotion had gone through throughout just  the book. Let alone from the movie to the book.]]> 2018-10-03 18:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288826154 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288826510 In the film Victor stays with his creature and embraces the fact that he just created life out of something lifeless, this contrasts with the novel when Victor states, "Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room."(pg 47) Instead of embracing the creature and being excited to see him as show in the film, Victor isn't excited to see him in the novel and instead he rushes out of the room. ]]> 2018-10-03 18:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288826510 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288826586 "... by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open;" (pg 47)
The films adaptation of Frankenstein's monster is a lot different from the book, in the film the monster is raised up to the heavens where it is struck by lightning and slowly moves its hand, to which Victor exclaims "It's Alive!". In the book Victors creature doesn't get hoisted up and struck by lightning in some grand show in front of other people, quite the contrary as in the book Victor is alone in his apartment when the creature opens its eyes and convulses to which Victor isn't overcome with joy, but disgust as he feels disappointed for what he has created, not joyful.]]> 2018-10-03 18:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288826586 2019danderson2 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288829841 In the film Victor felt superior regarding the creature he created. Victor stood next to the bed Frankenstein was on looking at him with just dazzling eyes. Victor kept touching his hand and screaming "He was alive!" Yet in the book Shelley stated "Unable to endure the aspect of the being I created, I rushed out of the room.."(47) When in the film Victor stayed in the room as he observed the creatures limbs in shock.

]]> 2018-10-03 18:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288829841 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288830650 "During all that time Henry was my nurse." (p.50) I have chosen this small line because it underlines very well Victor's condition, he is now like an animal, far from the real world, far from the people, that has already cut off every contact he has had with humans ( like his father, Elizabeth and his professors). Now it seems like his only objective is reaching the unlimited power that only god has]]> 2018-10-03 18:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/288830650 https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/297037678 In the novel, Mary Shelley describes the process of bringing the creature to life with very little detail. The book speaks more of Victor's preparation in regards to the building of his creature, rather than the act of actually bestowing it with life. The movie scene, on the other hand, provided a lot of detail that was not described in the book, and there were multiple other characters that a reader of the book could not easily identify. The movie scene of this section of the story was dramatized for cinematic value. ]]> 2018-10-25 16:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mlevick/itsalive/wish/297037678