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The Creature hides in an old cottage which is inhabited by a married couple, Felix and Agatha, and Felix's elderly, blind father, De Lacey. The Creature comes to care for them and brings them food in secret. De Lacey finds and befriends the Creature and, over the course of a year, teaches him to speak, read and write.
Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein is an 1823 play in three acts by Richard Brinsley Peake loosely based on the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. It is the first recorded theatrical adaptation of the novel [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and had 37 performances during its original run.
Lacey introduces his new friend to his granddaughter Agatha and her husband Felix. Terrified by the creature's appearance, Felix attacks him. In the ensuing struggle, the Creature kills Felix. Agatha, fleeing in terror, is struck by a carriage and dies. The Creature takes Agatha's body back to the laboratory, intent on asking Victor to revive her.
The Bride of Frankenstein appears in the 1973 British television film Frankenstein: The True Story portrayed by Jane Seymour. This incarnation of the Bride is created using the head of a peasant girl named Agatha and a body created by the evil Dr. Polidori while using a chemical reanimation process.
Frankenstein is a 2004 American television miniseries based on the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, ... Edita Borsova as Agatha; Sonny Brown as Young Victor;
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously ...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 science fiction horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh who also stars as Victor Frankenstein, with Robert De Niro portraying Frankenstein's monster (called The Creation in the film), and co-stars Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Richard Briers and Aidan Quinn.
The great Gothic wave, which stretches from 1764 with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to around 1818-1820, features ghosts, castles and terrifying characters; Satanism and the supernatural are favorite subjects; for instance, Ann Radcliffe presents sensitive, persecuted young girls who evolve in a frightening universe where secret doors open onto visions of horror, themes even more ...