Frankenweenie
Welcome back readers of my literature blog! It has been a long time since I last posted (almost a month), and our class has begun the analysis of the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly. Accordingly, in this post, I will be focusing on Frankenstein. However, there is a fun twist. Rather than analysing the book, I will be analysing Tim Burton’s movie “Frankenweenie (2012)”, documenting key plot moments that reveal the monstrous side of Victor’s creation and examining the motives behind Victor’s decision to create the “Monster Dog”. Unlike the novel, the target audience of Frakenweenie was a younger audience. As such, the purpose of the movie—despite the macabre art-style—was not to frighten the audience, but rather to portray an interesting prose. In my brief introduction, I said that I would document key plot moments that reveal the monstrous side of Victor’s creation; however, in the movie, Victor’s creation wasn’t exactly monstrous. One of the major turning points of the p...