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The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability." The monster also quotes a line from the poem in Chapter 15 of Frankenstein, saying: "'The path of my departure was free;' and there was none to lament my annihilation." [2]
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 ...
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Frankenstein's monster in an editorial cartoon, 1896, an allegory on the Silverite movement displacing other progressive factions in late 19th century U.S. Shelley described Frankenstein's monster as an 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) creature of hideous contrasts: His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great ...
Frankenstein's monster has appeared in many forms and inspired many similar characters. it has been gender-swapped, made into an animal, and given different personalities—but certain thematic elements remain, such as abandonment, the desire to be loved, and a dynamic love or hate relationship between creator and creation.
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.
In an episode of The World's Greatest Super Friends titled "The Super Friends Meet Frankenstein", the Super Friends battle the great-great-grandson of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and three of his monsters: a version of Frankenstein's monster, a tentacled tar monster with Kryptonite in it, and a hybrid monster with all of the powers of Superman ...
A similar-looking monster appeared on the single's picture sleeve, holding a cigarette. [10] [nb 6] Referring to the film clip, Jackson writes: "the Frankenstein monster stalks Starr but in the end the two hug and dance together, as thankfully, he and McCartney eventually did, leading to many more collaborations over the next forty years." [56]