Culture studies in practice:-Frankenstein

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BHUNGANI CHINTAVANKUMAR N.M.A. (SEM -2)

Paper no:- 8- cultural studies

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Smt. S. B. GARDI DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MAHARAJA KRUSHANAKUMARSINHJI

BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

Mary Shelley’s

Novel has morphed in to

Countless Form

Fiction & Non-fiction Stage Plays

Film Television

Advertising Comic Book

Games cartoons

Academic Study Food(Frankenberry)

In below given quote we can see his hunger for knowledge and to create a life through that knowledge

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness

akin to rapture, as they were earliest sensation I can remember”

Humanity which sees the moral or ethical consent of the novel and by this I also want to prove my point that why Marry Shelley wants to create a male monster? But by this regard I can say through observing all aspect the aspects of novel and its study that I have, and naturally this clear when its shows the power of men and in other hand the ugliness of the monster that she wants to show and also we can say in cultural studies of this novel that, “A message on the Irony and Danger in the Quest for power” cause the generation is what that creates or challenge.

Revolutionary BirthsAge of Revolution Modern Consumer culture

Frankenstein is “a vital metaphor, peculiarly appropriate to CULTURE dominated by a consumer technology, neurotically obsessed with ‘getting in

touch’ with its authentic self and frightened at what it is discovering.

- George Levine

From CNN descriptions of Saddam Hussein as an “American Created Frankenstein” to magazine articles that warn of

genetically engineered “Franken-foods,” test-tube babies, and cloning.

Monster like the creature Paradoxical

Transgress against “establishment”

Destroy monster by society

Mary Shelley’s Creature is Political and Moral paradox

Creature as Proletarian

Percy Shelley was thought of as a dangerous radical bent on labor reform and was spied upon by the government.

In Frankenstein, what Johanna M. Smith calls the “ alternation between fear of vengeful revolution and sympathy for the suffering poor.” illuminates Mary Shelley’s own divisions between fear of the masses.

From Natural Philosophy to Cyber:• Today, in 21 century an age of

genetic engineering, biotechnology, and cloning, the most far-reaching industrialization of life forms to date, Frankenstein is more relevant than ever.

• Result of genetic engineering is that like…. surrogate mother, test-tube baby, Cloning,

A Race of Devils Frankenstein may analyzed in its

portrayal of different “Races”.

Mary Shelley’s creature’s skin is only described ‘YELLOW’.

It has been constructed “out of a cultural tradition of the threatening ‘Other’- whether troll or giant,gypsy or Negro from the dark inner recesses of Xenophobic fear and loathing.

• - H.L. Malchow

The Frankenpheme in Popular Culture:

• Fiction,Drama,Film,Television ,games,comic book ,magazine, act…

• Cultural sign in Frankenstein made to be a Frankentheme and the heart of the novel irony. How the Victor creates a way of live, and how the Frankenstein throws any as a orphan and suffering from society’s cruelness. Even Victor’s reliance upon defensive idealization represents one the major narcissistic feature of his. He repeatedly makes one statement about his childhood that;

• “No human being could have childhood passed a

happier than me”

Fiction

The First Theatrical Presentation based on Frankenstein was Presumption or The Fate of Frankenstein by Richard Brinsley Peake, Performed at the English Opera House in London in the Summer of 1823.

In Drama Creature has generally been made Horrific, and Victor has been assigned less blame.

On 19th Century Stage, the Creature was a composite of frightening makeup and human qualities.

Films

In Frankenstein Omnibus, reader can study the screenplay for the 1931 by James Whale film Frankenstein, the most famous of all adaption.

Conclusion• Mary Shelley’s Sci-Fi adventure, thriller and dramatize

the novel in that one can do the thing which challenging the God’s creation, the cultural sign and its major aspects. In this novel we come across with mythical story or we can say culture tale like “Prometheus”, “Narcissus” and “Paradise lost”. Mary Shelley has presented very fruitfully and with appropriate facts. Her novel has morphed into countless forms in both height brow and popular culture. Her creation teaches us not to underestimate the power of youth culture. It is truly captivating powerful novel that analyzes ‘Monstrosity’ with regard to ‘humanity’. However without a sound understanding of the context, in which the text was written one couldn’t completely comprehend the themes, ideas and references did not present nor can the apparent link between monstrosity and humanity be completely fathomed.