Frankenstein’s Monster: A Representation of Our Inner Fears

Intro to College Writing
March 25, 2021
Frankenstein’s Monster: A representation of our inner fears
Since the silent era, thrillers with a monster in the cinema succeeded in raising the audience's hair. Horror movies stimulate the inherent fear by designing and developing a monster deviating from normality and which might not be scary in the feature. This is the reason why straightforward thrillers attain more controversies. Even a simple monster without much blood in the movie can initiate the inborn sense of terror in human nature as "fear and desire are our most primitive impulses" (Grant and Sharrett 53). For example, the Frankenstein (1931) movie is based on an obsessed scientist who creates a living creature from different body parts without making the realization that he used a madman’s brain. The creature eventually escapes and causes havoc in the nearby village. Frankenstein seeks the enigmatic creature and is finally forced to face his haunted creation. It is the fear of what Frankenstein’s monster represents in the movie that causes concern and fright. In a way, it is an illustration of real-life situations and how we see our own fears that we created in our heads over the years and how we all must someday face them. However, other fans of the movie have created their interpretation of what the film represents to them and society. For instance, some see Frankenstein as the danger of not correctly raising children; the parents are seen as creators in this instance, and their children are their creation. Abandoning a child or failing to raise them right can have a huge toll not only on society but also on the parents/creators.
Furthermore, Frankenstein will unquestionably be interpreted in a feminist light as the immediate implications of avoiding maternity during the birth procedure. That is, excluding the feminine aspect from the process of life production results in a hideous imbalance in reality. As for me, I believe that the movie represents idealism, the realization of man's desire to be the controller of both life and death, removing all anxiety of death.
The Frankenstein (1931) movie suggests the scientists as God have the power to create a living creature, thus deviating from normality (Shelley 68). Thereby, the creature by Frankenstein succeeds in reaching deep down to bear hidden dreadfulness in human nature as Morris Dickstein says it is easy to itemize the “elemental fears that horror films uncover” (Grant and Sharrett 53). In other words, the monsters in monster movies signify fear, and the audience is psychologically disturbed by what they represent because the sentiment of fear already exists in human nature. In Frankenstein's creation, we are drawn to a human nature controversy: What constitutes a monster? Is it a matter of personal appearance? Do his defects define him? These are questions of the nature of humans that the movie poses, causing us to reflect more on ourselves and how we see the world and other people. Furthermore, it illustrates that it is human nature to fear what we do not understand.
A horror movie also represents idealism, as stated in my thesis; the revelation of man's ambition to be the ruler of life and death, which would be the stripping...