Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew Up... in Europe in the 1800s. His wealthy parents had a house in Geneva as well as a lake house in the country. Growing up, Victor was inseparable from his best friend, Henry, and his adopted sister, Elizabeth Lavenza. Elizabeth was an orphan who was found by Victor’s mother who thought Elizabeth would make a good wife for Victor some day.
Living... in Ingolstadt, Switzerland. He came there to study natural philosophy and chemistry at the University of Ingolstadt. Though Victor quickly realized that he knew more than his professors.
Profession... scientist. Since his first scientific experiment, that is all he ever wanted to be. A kind of frenzy blinded him to anything else but the laboratory.
Relationship Status... in love with Elizabeth who is patiently waiting for Victor to return to her.
Challenge... regretting his eight-foot creation. For nearly two years, Victor diligently worked toward his goal of infusing life into a dead body. But when he finished and achieved everything he set out to do, he said, “The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” His dream has turned into his worst nightmare – he created a monster!
Personality... impassioned, serious, and arrogant. Victor had been so cocky that he saw himself almost as a god who could create life. But the failed experiment has humbled him, to say the least. Victor is becoming anxious, depressed, and secretive.
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200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
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Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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Mary Shelley blurs the line between man and monster in this classic gothic masterpiece.The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monstrous creature he created has held readers spellbound ever since it was published almost two centuries ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror. But on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of his solitude. A novel of hallucinatory intensity, Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination.
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Henry Frankenstein is a doctor who is trying to discover a way to make the dead walk. He succeeds and creates a monster that has to deal with living again.
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In a foggy winter morning, a raft brings a priest to an isolated island. He is getting paid to perform a wedding ritual under very mysterious conditions. The groom is Victor Frankenstein, and the young and beautiful bride is his cousin Elizabeth. Seven armed and dangerous mercenary soldiers have been hired to protect her against something huge that hides in the woods, awaiting for that wedding night to be consummated. Victor is the only one who knows the truth about their enemy. His secret will be paid with the life of his private army, whose men will die one by one, as the creature gets closer to his target: the bride.
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The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.
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This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori (James Mason). David McCallum, Jane Seymour, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud and Tom Baker also star.
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Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat
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Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
