Gothic and Its Analysis of Victor Frakenstein Movie

GOTHIC


Gothic can be defined as writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, and dread.Gothic novel or story will revolve around a large, ancient house that conceals a terrible secret or that serves as the refuge of ​an especially frightening and threatening character. Despite the fairly common use of this bleak motif, Gothic writers have also used supernatural elements, touches of romance, well-known historical characters, and travel and adventure narratives in order to entertain their readers.


VICTOR FRAKENSTEIN



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Victor Frankenstein is a 2015 American science fiction fantasy horror film based on contemporary adaptations of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. It is directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Max Landis. Starring James McAvoy as the title character and Daniel Radcliffe as Igor, the film was released by 20th Century Fox on November 25, 2015.
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Explanation about Gothic in Victor Frakenstein
       Gothic focuses on the mysterious and supernatural. In Frankenstein, Shelley uses rather mysterious circumstances to have Victor Frankenstein create the monster: the cloudy circumstances under which Victor gathers body parts for his experiments and the use of little known modern technologies for unnatural purposes. Shelley employs the supernatural elements of raising the dead and macabre research into unexplored fields of science unknown by most readers. She also causes us to question our views on Victor's use of the dead for scientific experimentation. Upon hearing the story for the first time, Lord Byron is said to have run screaming from the room, so the desired effect was achieved by Mary Shelley.

      Gothic also takes place in gloomy places like old buildings (particularly castles or rooms with secret passageways), dungeons, or towers that serve as a backdrop for the mysterious circumstances. A familiar type of Gothic story is, of course, the ghost story. Also, far away places that seem mysterious to the readers function as part of the Gothic setting. Frankenstein is set in continental Europe, specifically Switzerland and Germany, where many of Shelley's watchers had not been. Further, the incorporation of the chase scenes through the Arctic regions takes us even further from England into regions unexplored by most watchers. Victor's laboratory is the perfect place to create a new type of human being. Laboratories and scientific experiments were not known to the average watcher, thus this was an added element of mystery and gloom.

      All such descriptions are suggestive of the Gothic. Victor collecting bones in the charnel houses and graves and working in his filthy workshop totally cut off from the rest of the habitation. He himself feels horror struck when he looks at his own creation – the yellow skin which scarcely covered the muscles and arteries, watery eyes almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets, shriveled complexion and black-lips. The gigantic figure he creates horrifies the creator and he rushes out, tries to get sleep finds the monster looking at him; the very sight shocks him and he rushes out to spend the entire night walking about in the courtyard down below. There is then the monster’s attempt to coax the child William to befriend him and strangle him. Though the narratives come from the mouth of the Monster to Victor and Victor to Walton, the effect is truly uncanny and eerie. The same feelings are evoked by the long chase by Victor all through the wilds, hazardous terrains, then getting a sledge, exchanging it with another to pursue the monster as he follows the words carved and engraved on the bark of the trees and on stones, and finally, getting trapped in  the ice.



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