Reaction Paper: The Bride of Frankenstein

The movie “The Bride of Frankenstein” is somewhat a continuation of the story of Frankenstein. While it was thought that the monster was gone because of the people’s effort of capturing and burning it, the monster actually survived and had continued to cause fear and misfortune to most people. One of the main conflict was the desire of the monster to have a friend so he was persuaded to do anything to make Frankenstein make another one like the monster but instead a female counterpart.

Honestly speaking, all my life I had thought that Frankenstein was the name of the monster because the story is famously known as Frankenstein and it somehow revolved around the monster. It was just in that movie that I learned and cleared that misconception of mine that the monster is the monster and was not give a name by Frankenstein who was his creator. About the title of the movie, I am somehow confused on who is referred to as the bride of Frankenstein whether it is  the Doctor’s wife who was kidnapped or the female version of the monster who the doctor made at the end part of the story.

The story is one of those science fictions that shows ‘science go wrong’. Most of the reasons usually is because of misconduct and not properly observing the ethics and proper moral in doing science researches. The monster was made through dead human corpses patched together and was made to life by electricity from lightning. The process was mad science as Dr. Frankenstein did not follow the proper process of experiment specially using dead corpses resulting to the monster. The monster is the outcome of science not done properly where it is difficult to contain and have caused many damage to the people around.

I think, the monster made dumb was because they want to show that the people are actually misunderstanding the monster so the only thing they want was to kill it. If the monster was with intellect, then it should have been more possible for him to show what his intentions are. It was shown in the movie that the monster can be nice and only wants friends but because of the fear of others, they don’t give him the chance on getting to know him causing the misunderstanding.

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