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Discussing adaptations of Victorian craziness
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Discussing adaptations of Victorian craziness
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I think that the two novels of Jekyll and Hyde and Frankenstein differ greatly in the way they portray their monsters/villains/freaks. Frankenstein portrays the monster as evil, but the audience feels sympathy towards it and goes through changes with the monster. In the novel Jekyll and Hyde, the audience is left in the dark somewhat about Hyde; we know that everyone who meets him feels instant repulsion but we don't know why. This makes us want to hate him as well, with no real reasoning behind the feeling. In this way, the two novels are very different because we don't really go through changes in emotion towards the character of Hyde, but we begin to understand the character of Frankenstein's monster.
The movie adaptation of Frankenstein was much darker than the adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde so far. In Frankenstein it was harder to relate to the characters because it was so dramatic. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, however, it seems a little easier to identify with the characters; they seem a little more realistic.
I think the biggest similarity in the two movies is that niether of them follow the book exactly. Granted, Jekyll and Hyde follows the story better than Frankenstein, neither of them are remotly close to identical.
I also think its interesting that the main characters names are changed in both films, but a name in the book is still used. [Henry was actually Victors friend; Harry is what Utterson always called Henry].
Even though the movies were made in the same year, i also noticed that Jekyll and Hyde is edited alot more smoothly. Maybe the editing was done the way it is to help make Frankenstein seem less realistic since it is about a monster rather than a human?
Stevenson’s view of monsters, freaks and villains contrasts that of Mary Shelley’s view in Frankenstein. Shelley’s view showed sympathy to the monster. She showed the monster as an innocent man that had evil brought onto by environmental factors. Stevenson’s is completely opposite of that in that he portrays his freak as a killer by heart.
The novel Frankenstein is very different from Jekyll and Hyde. However, they are both similar in that I believe that they are warning against the dangers of technology and the pursuit of knowledge. Both Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll are using experiments that ultimately cause the production of a monster. However, Dr. Frankenstein is trying to bring the dead back to life without thinking of the negative outcomes of doing so. He creates a monster who is longing for a companion and seeking revenge. Whereas Dr. Jekyll creates a potion that seems to bring the monster out of him, which transforms him from his proper self into a destructive Hyde. Hyde isn't trying to seek revenge though, he is more just like an uninhabited animalistic beast within Dr. Jekyll that has been suppressed.
The 1931 film Frankenstein and the 1931 film Jekyll and Hyde are very similar. For instance, the movies have similar kinds of storylines. They have a monster and a love story. Also, both movies are in black and white so they look very similar in certain scenes.
The movies are different by their monsters are different. In Frankenstein, the monster was only looking for friends and someone to love. He was learning about the human species and he only wanted to become one. In Jekyll and Hyde, all the monster did was break the law and commit murders. Even though the monster in Frankenstein killed people, all he wanted to do was befriend the humans.
i think the movie of Dr.Jekyll is better than the movie of Frankenstein, because the movie of Dr.Jekyll gives many detail about the human's though, and every shot are combined together, so we can turly understand what's going on in the movie, but in Frankenstein, some shots make me very confused, and it didn't make any sense.
The two novels are completely different from one another. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson portrayed the monster ( Mr. Hyde) as human-like, a a part of human nature. Of course he was evil, but he only portrayed the human emotions that Dr. Jekyll kept under wraps. In the novel Frankenstein, the monster was portrayed as completely unhuman (not a word), but he felt human emotions so we then felt sorry for him, and he was not evil because he wanted to be (as was Mr. Hyde), he was evil because of the circumstances that other humans had put him in.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde portrays monster, freaks, and villains in a very different way than the novel Frankenstein does. Frankenstein is a large bulky creature that even though is a murderer, as a reader you have a small sense of sympathy for. On the other hand Mr. Hyde, is a human sized monster whose personality is demonic and ruthless. As a reader you dislike and detest Mr. Hyde from the very beginning of the novel. The author does this in our first encounter with Mr. Hyde by having him trample an innocent child with full understanding of what he was doing, and without any remorse. Frankenstein is a improbable reality because of the way he came to be as well as his appearance and physical traits. Mr. Hyde however, has a much more probably sense to his existence because of the way the author brings him to life through chemical imbalances. Chemical imbalances are issues people deal with in the real world, which to readers can strike more fear because of the realness to his evil personality
In these two novels,Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde, the authors both portrayed the monsters. But the ways they portrayed and the personalities the monsters have are totally different. In Frankenstein, the monster is just a creature. When he lives, he has no emotion,thoughts and he can't read and write. His life is tragic, his "father"abandons him because he is so ugly. But in Jekyll and Hyde, Mr. Hyde has thoughts and emotions. I would like to say, he is a bad Jekyll. Even though most of the time, his thoughts and actions are completely horrible. But sometimes Jekyll's thoughts are still leave when Hyde he transfers into Hyde. But the result of the two monsters are the same-they all die.
I think the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is very different from the Frankenstein. The authors portrayed the monster are different. Mary portrayed the monster, as a creation, it cannot speaking, writting and thinking.that's a real monster for people. Howvever, in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson portrayed the monster, as a person, he can speaking, writting and thinking. so, although both of them wrote a monster, the monster are totally different. And also there is same thing between the novels. They both portrayed the monsters are evil
The two films, Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde are similar in multiple ways. Obviously both films were produced in 1931, therefore the color is black and white. Both films are centered around the actions of monsters and villains. When Jekyll and Hyde started, it seemed identical to Frankenstein. The biggest difference between the two films is the storyline. While Jekyll struggles to contain the monster within him, Henry was more occupied trying restrain his monster form society.
I think the story of Frankenstein and Jeklly and Hyde vary greatly. I feel that in the novel Frankenstein the audience is much less sympathetic to the monster as Frankenstein does much more evil deeds and is just portrayed flat out as a much darker villain. However in Jekyll and Hyde the audience feels much more sympathetic for the main character because he has two separate sides and Jekyll can not control what Hyde does.
The two movies are similar in the fact that neither one of them stuck straight to the storyline. In Jekyll and Hyde a bunch of female roles were added to a book that had two mentions of women. In Frankenstein the entire monster's story was left out, and all you saw was a monster created from the start. They also represent the monster/villian as just an evil being with no hope of being good.
Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde may both be horror stories, but they are two very different tales. Frankenstein focuses on a monster created by a man, while Jekyll and Hyde explores the idea of the monster within a man. The authors are also trying to evoke different emotions for their monsters. Shelly was trying to make the readers feel sympathy, while Stevenson was attempting to make his audience afraid of the evil Mr. Hyde. Both stories however, include a level of suspense, violence, and gore that comes with any horror story.
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