paper 8 cultural studies

Name: Solanki Binita M.

Roll No: 05.

Paper No: 05

Subject: Cultural Studies.

Topic: Study of Frankenstein.

Submitted to: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

Introduction:

                           Mary Shelly was a revolusnationery writer. Her novel has morphed into countless from in both height brow and popular culture. She eloped to France with the Romantic poet P.B.Shelley.

                           The novel ‘Frankenstein’ is written by Mary Shelley. Novel is full of fiction. The writing of Frankenstein took place at Illa Dicdati on the banks of Lake Geneva. It is truly captivating powerful novel that analyzed ‘Monstrosity’ with regard to humanity. The novel secondary title ‘The Prometheus.’ However without a sound understanding of the context, in which the text was written one couldn’t completely comprehend the themes, ideas and reference did not present nor can the apparent link between monstrosity and humanity be completely fathomed.

                           In Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost god created all god created all human being but some human did not under control of him so god departed them and theme they had become Satan. Some negative aspects can been seen as monstrous if they resulted from humans from the text scientific context one can see that victor Frankenstein achievement was the objective for many scientists of that time.

                           Victor Frankenstein created in his monster is in one way a mirror of his own soul. Frankenstein rejection of his monster can be a representation of man being ironically disgusted at sin his own sin.

Revolutionary Births:   

                                  Born like its creator in an age of revolution, Frankenstein challenged accepted ideas of its day. As it has become increasingly modified by modern consumer culture, one wonder whether its original revolutionary spirit and its critique of scientific, philosophical, and political and gender issues have become observed instead its continuing transformation attests to its essential oppositional nature.

The Creature as Proletarian: 

                                                We recall from earlier chapter that Mary Shelley lived during times of great up heaval in Britain, not only was thinker but she also met many others such as Thomas Paine and William Blake, P.B.Shelley was thought of as a dangerous radical bent on labor reform and was spied upon by the government. We can take help of the example from Milton’s Paradise Lost. In this epic god governed Satan.

A Race of Devils:  

                                  Frankenstein’s Creature also recalls theories of polygeny and autogenesis from German race theories of the day. But Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak describes the novel as a critique of empire and racism, pointing out that “Social engineering should not be based upon pure, theoretical, or natural-scientific reason alone…. “Frankenstein” language of racism-the dark side of imperialism understood as social mission –combines with the hysteria of masculism into the idiom of sexual reproduction rather than subject constitution.”

                           Broadly defined, Franenphemes demonstrate the extent of the novel’s presence in world cultures, as the encoding of race and class in the 1824 Canning speech in Parliament, in today’s global debates about such things as genetically engineered foods, and of course in fiction and other media.

The Greatest Horror Story Novel Written: 

                     Apparently the first writer to attempt a straightforward short tale inspired by Frankenstein was Herman Melville, whose story “The Bell-Tower” was published in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine in 1855. The first story about a female monster is French author Villiers de L’Isle Adam’s “The Future Eve”, an 1886 novelette not translated into English until fifty years later, in which an American inventor modeled on Thomas Edison makes an artificial woman for his friend and benefactor, a handsome young lord who has despaired of finding a mate.

Frankenstein on the Stage: 

                                         The first theatrical presentation based on Frankenstein was Presumption, or, The Fate of Frankenstein by Richards Brinsley Peake, performed at the English Opera House in London in the summer of 1823 and subsequently revived many times.

Film Adaptations:

                           In the Frankenstein Omnibus, reader can study the screenplay for the 1931 James Whale Film Frankenstein, the most famous of all adaptation.
It was loosely based on the novel with the addition of new elements, including the placing of a criminal into the monster’s body.