Hardly the best of Hammer Studios' Frankenstein epics, The Evil of Frankenstein is too much the mixture as before to be truly memorable. Back in business once more is Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), who finds. This was the first Frankenstein movie I saw. It didn’t change my life but it does look really cool. The Evil of Frankenstein (titlu original: The Evil of Frankenstein) este un film britanic din 1964 regizat de Freddie Francis. Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is conducting his experiments at a watermill, but he is interrupted by a priest. He and his assistant Hans (Sandor Eles) escape to Karlstadt where his chateau is at. It is here where the. Frankenstein's Monster is a tragic villain in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and many. Frankenstein's Monster is a tragic villain in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and many film. Most commentators consider this the least of the Hammer Frankensteins, but it's not that bad. Its worst failing is its copying of old Universal cliches, from the erupting castle to the monster (whose makeup looks. The Evil of Frankenstein at the Internet Movie Database; The Evil of Frankenstein at AllMovie; The Evil of Frankenstein at the TCM Movie Database. Frankenstein is regarded as the genesis of science. While we tend to think of this. Hiroshima nuclear genie irrevocably let out of the lamp. Shelley, nearly three centuries ago, was echoing her mother's. This. notion can in turn be traced to Jean- Jacques Rousseau's. Emile, . He turns everything upside clown. In contrast to her. Rousseauistic view that mankind is the source of. Mary Shelley also aims at a higher. As William Walling points out, Victor Frankenstein is. Victor is, however, a considerably flawed creator whose. In casting her novel with the Miltonic theme of the created's. Shelley suggests through her characterization of Victor. Frankenstein that it is God's hubris . His Monster fills the multiple roles of fallen Adam and Satan avenging the God. Job- like victim of circumstances. Finally, Mary Shelley, as the. Mary) as well as ill- fated creations of her own (one of. Percy Bysshe Shelley's. Harriet. drowned herself after he left her for Mary; and more tragedies. As Anne Mellor notes, Mary Shelley was. The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) DIRECTOR: Freddie Francis WRITER: John Elder (Anthony Hinds) CINEMATOGRAPHER: John Wilcox MUSIC: Don Banks CAST: Peter Cushing, Sandor Eles, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont. Superficially, The Evil of Frankenstein is a great addition to the legendary Hammer series. Superficially, the acting is sublime, the story is engrossing, and the film is action-packed. Prometheus myth after having read Ovid's Metamorphoses in 1. Moreover. the Romantic poets. Prometheus as noble rebel and. Mary Shelley's most. Prometheans was, of course. Percy Bysshe Shelley, author of Prometheus Unbound. Victor Frankenstein but was. Beyond these obvious associations between Frankenstein and. Promethean mythology, however, it is important to consider the. Victor Frankenstein is seemingly oblivious to the. Monster, the possible. The underlying. theme is rooted in Miltonic questions about the first creation. And if, despite being the prime source of all. He continue to allow ? Does God truly play dice with the universe? And if he. does, is He totally shed of any responsibility when the dice. Certainly Victor Frankenstein's plays a. An examination of Shelley's portrayal of. Victor's character and motivations reveals her thoughts about. Miltonic dilemma. The events that follow. Paul Sherwin in observing that . In. arguing that Frankenstein and his monster are two sides of the. Mary Thornburg asks. And why did Mary Shelley, who painstakingly edited and corrected. Victor and Monster were . And it is that very same Monster who murders Elizabeth. Frankenstein), thereby resolving. Victor's incestuous fears. Equally important to consider is. Monster is never. Victor. This. mistake is a highly perceptive one, though, in recognizing the. Monster as the evil reflection of the . To see the Monster in some sense as. Victor's double, and that the evil he commits is Victor's evil. Just as crucial is. Monster as a separate being created by. Frankenstein, and that Victor's personality is imparted to his. God creates man in His own. When Walton. meets the Monster immediately after Frankenstein dies, any doubt. Walton, or the reader, may have had about whether the creature. Of course, the. possibility exists that neither Frankenstein nor the Monster. Walton's own excuse to justify. Or, if we believe. Frankenstein is real, it may be significant that the one. Monster occurs only after. Frankenstein has died. Shelley, as did all artists of the. Indeed, in her own. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley says the idea. It might follow. then, for the evil doppelg. Why Frankenstein is upheld as a progenitor. It is doubtful if Shelley went. Frankenstein simply to tag on a gimmicky ending. Hyde. personality, because the scientific principles behind the. Monster's creation are fantastically impossible. So it may. appear from the vantage point of twentieth- century knowledge. Shelley's science is, as James Rieger describes it. However, Percy. Bysshe Shelley's preface to his wife's novel notes that . Darwin and. some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of. How is it, for example. Monster is able to ramble about. Europe without ever being seen by anyone, at least by anyone who. Victor Frankenstein? For that matter, we have. Frankenstein was looking at for the two years he. November evening he finds himself. The existence of God, and particularly the. Bible, in which His. That the Monster is known by his deeds, and. God, but the Devil. When the reader asks. Monster is real or not, Shelley is forcing. God is real or not. It strikes us as. Frankenstein so readily abandons his. No father should claim the. I should deserve theirs. We might at first. Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden. Eden in Genesis 3. God does not entirely abandon. Frankenstein does the Monster. Instead of admonishing. Satan, or somehow metaphysically remedying Satan's inclination. God casts Satan out forever from His domain. In both cases, we have to ask, without. And, in both cases. Creator. the cause of his predicament, but upon the innocent beings. Creator (Adam and Eve; Victor's close friend. Even just up to Mary Shelley's. As Mellor points out, . It is here. where the Monster's cruel education in human follies takes. I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your. A man might be respected with only one of these. Compare the Monster's words quoted above with. Wollstonecraft's complaint in Vindication of the Rights of. For whilst rank and titles are held of the utmost importance. Genius . Agatha fainted; and Safie, unable to attend to her. Felix darted forward, and with. I. clung: in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and. Felix's response is. This simplistic reasoning, based on. Monster's origins or motivations, just as much of history has. Even regarding differences with the. Up until this point, the Monster has shown no. Indeed, his actions have been. The. Monster's identification with Adam - - and, by extension, Victor. Frankenstein's identification with God - - initiates the process. Estrangement from family, the basic social unit. And after Frankenstein. God- like responsibility to the Monster by. Rather than being. Frankenstein now fears. In other words. Frankenstein now sees himself as Satan rather than God. Such. insight comes curiously late to Frankenstein. Indeed, his. refusal to animate a companion, after being well on his way to. Shelley portrays. True, the. Monster has shown his potential for evil in killing young. William and implicating Justine to hang for the murder. Still. his request is not an unreasonable one. As a scientist. presumably aware of basic biological principles, it is quite. Frankenstein is really afraid the Monster and. All he has to do is leave. This is the underlying reason why we need to see. Monster as an actual creature. It is also. interesting to note that . And both are being tested, though. Monster's virtue. But while Job. is being tested by supernatural forces, the Monster is being. Perhaps this is why. Monster fails his test and turns to evil. Job at least has. God, however enigmatic, to turn to; the Monster has only a man. God as a last resource. God must surely know of. The Monster is equally sure of his. Job, at least, is. The Monster is condemned to suffer for. Once again, to reject the Monster's existence. Mary Shelley. is saying about the ethical quandaries of creation. Certainly, much can be said. Mary's own life is. The most notable parallel is that. Mary Wollstonecraft died from complications in. Mary), a creator who, not incidentally, was. Then. there is the manifold guilt of possibly being the cause not only. Percy Shelley's estranged. After the book is published, there follows the. William, whose namesake in. Monster, and husband Percy Bysshe. Shelley, poet advocate of the Prometheus myth whose scientific. Victor serve as the model for. Frankenstein. Mellor. Percy Shelley's unresolved Oedipal complex compounded. Elizabeth as the source. Frankenstein's death- wish dream, to be fulfilled in reality. Monster, of his . Mary. Shelley may have put more of herself in this plot than it might. She might just as easily have named the character of. Elizabeth after her own stepsister, Jane, whose affair with Percy. Mary wish her dead. Perhaps Mary got her. Jane, whose. continual presence was a constant irritation to Mary, was also. Claire, which could have been transformed into Victor. Frankenstein's equally constant, but ill- fated, companion. Elizabeth Nitchie notes, . Permanently separated. Monster's loneliness summarizes. As Mellor. points out, . The idea of an entirely man- made monster is. Mary Shelley's own. The. significance of this is best illustrated by Northrop Frye's. To account for the contrast between the. God must have made and the actual world. Man creates evil because he. This raises the question of whether a fallible God, if. And, if not. wherein lies salvation? Robert. Walton, though not without regret, is persuaded to abandon his. Promethean quest in recognition of the potential harm he. Despite the shortcomings. God's Creation, Mary Shelley puts faith in humanity's ability. Asimov's reaction to the Frankenstein. Complex, that . See in particular Mellor (5. Percy Shelley edited, not always for the better, Mary's original. In the 1. 81. 8 edition, Elizabeth is the orphan. Alphonse's sister. The 1. 83. 1 edition eliminated this blood. Victor by changing Elizabeth to an abandoned. Milanese nobleman. Even if the kinship were. Elizabeth was raised in the same family, as. Victor. See Appendix B of the James. Rieger edition of Frankenstein for a comparison of the. See in particular chapter 6 of Vasbinder's. Scientific Attitudes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for. Victor's experiments. See the debates on Deism, especially in the. John Locke's The. Reasonableness of Christianity (1. Gilbert and Susan Gubar add to the. Paradise Lost/Genesis analogy the suggestion that. Frankenstein assumes Eve's role in having eaten from the. The. Monster also has Eve- like qualities in that . New York: Ballantine, 1. The Rest of the Robots. New York: Doubleday. New York: Chelsea. House, 1. 98. 5. Creation and Recreation. Toronto: U of. Toronto, 1. The Madwoman in the. Attic. New Haven: Yale UP, 1. The Book of God and Man: A Study of. Job. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1. The Reasonableness of Christianity. London: Methuen, 1. New. York: Macmillan, 1. New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers UP, 1. 95. Emile: or On Education. New York: Basic Books, 1. 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