The characteristics of the human condition are portrayed in both the movie Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh, 1994) and the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in very similar ways. The human condition of fear and loneliness is shown when the monster is abandoned by his creator and left to fend for himself. This makes the monster scared and lonely just like any human would be if they entered the world, and were shoved off to fend for themselves. Mary Shelley is showing how human traits affected the monster right after it was created. The movie and the book start off with the same view on how they depict the creature. He starts off just wanting someone to help him, and be his friend. But as society continues to reject him for not being…show more content… This gives the creature one last hope that he will finally have a companion to run away with. But when Frankenstein starts to create the next creature he can’t go through with it, and this enrages the monster causing him to frame Frankenstein for his best friend Henrys murder in the book (Shelley, Frankenstein.) In the movie Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1994) Frankenstein agrees to create a female for the monster but when the monster tells him he has to use Justine’s body Frankenstein cannot go through with it, and this turns the monster against him for good. On Victors wedding night he tries to protect Elizabeth but the creature gets passed him and rips her heart out. In the movie this causes Victor to try to bring her back to life and this causes Frankenstein and the creature to fight over her. She then ends up killing herself because she is horrified by what she has become. At the end of both the book and the movie Frankenstein dies in search of the monster. He ends up being rescued by Captain Walton who is leading an expedition to reach the North Pole, and this is where he tells his story before he dies. When the creature finds out he died he comes back to him. In the movie during the ceremony the creature burns himself alive with his creator. In the book the creature says that “he is going to seek the most northern extremity before he dies so that nobody can recreate anything like him” (Shelley, Frankenstein
