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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein is tempted by his monster's proposal to create a female creature so that the monster can have a wife: "'Shall each man,' cried he, 'find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?'" [1] The monster promises that if Victor grants his request, he and his mate will vanish into the wilderness of ...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818): Female version of the creature created by Victor Frankenstein – he destroys it before it can be brought to life [3] The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1837): The title character is a mermaid; The Succubus by Honoré de Balzac (1837): A succubus disguised as a woman [4]
Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) plays the same role in the 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as she does in the novel, save one significant alteration.After the monster (Robert De Niro) kills her by tearing her heart out, a distraught Victor (Kenneth Branagh) reanimates her as an undead being, attaching her head and hands to a different female corpse.
Frankenstein agrees, and eventually constructs a female creature on a remote island in Orkney, but aghast at the possibility of creating a race of monsters, destroys the female creature before it is complete. Horrified and enraged, the creature immediately appears, and gives Frankenstein a final threat: "I will be with you on your wedding night."
Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American Gothic science fiction horror film, and the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein.As with the first film, Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale starring Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein. [3]
"Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines," a maze at Halloween Horror Nights, highlights villains and heroines such as Saskia Van Helsing, the Bride of Frankenstein and Countess Marya Zaleska.
Of all the mythical monsters, Frankenstein is probably the most famous. Brought to life by author Mary Shelley in the 1818 novel by the same name, the mythical monster was said to have been ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. 1818 novel by Mary Shelley This article is about the novel by Mary Shelley. For the Monster, see Frankenstein's monster. For other uses, see Frankenstein (disambiguation). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Volume I, first edition Author Mary Shelley Language English Genre Gothic ...