Frankenstein’s Monster: A Representation of Our Inner Fears

Frankenstein’s Monster: A Representation of Our Inner Fears
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. Frankenstein created a monster that brought fear and terror in the village and among the people. The scenes in the movie represents the challenges and obstacles we are facing on a day-to-day basis. Moreover, the people in the village were scared because what they saw was something not normal or they were familiar with. Similarly, in our lives, we become fearful of new changes and sudden shift in events. 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 these general opening statements.
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.
While there are many possible interpretations of the film, I believe it represents the power of life and death and how we’re not supposed to play as gods. The Frankenstein (1931) movie suggests the scientists as God have the power to create a living creature, thus deviating from normality. Thereby, as a result of the scientist’s desire to create life by unnatural means and the greed for his name to be made well-known, it resulted to creating a dreadful creature. 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. The frustrating part is how a person could even have thoughts of playing with life and experimenting on doing things that are forbidden without even considering the possible drastic consequences. The scientist’s desire to control life and death ended tragic and even caused damages to some.
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 away all fear of death. However, this goes against nature, and the illusion turns into a nightmare, as it stomps out of balance, not ruled by and of the "nurture" that makes man to be good. The monster depicts humanity, ram...