I, Robot
Film
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<div class="field two columns alpha"><em>I, Robot</em> was a Novel and film based on general fear of advances in technology. The term "Frankenstein Complex" is coined in the novel to describe the fear that robots, like the monster, may rebel against their creators. </div>
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<p><br />Initially in the movie, things seem to be okay and in relative harmony. People are protected by the three laws of robotics, laws that were put in place that ensured that these new creations were unable to harm humans. However, like the monster in Shelley's novel, who is to say that non-human things introduced into a human environment will conform to the laws they had no part in making?</p>
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<p>This film relies on some of the fears that many people have as we become more reliant on technology. As the twenty-first century advances, the technological advances we've experienced have seemed almost otherworldly. Obviously, the speed at which this happens can bring many fears of what could happen. This film tries to play on some of those ideas and fears.</p>
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Caleb Gould
<em>I, Robot</em> (film)
20th Century Fox
2004
Frankenstein Comic 1952
Popular Culture
The Frankenstein comic series, by Dick Briefer, started in 1945 and lasted up until 1954. Briefer’s first adaptation of <em>Frankenstein</em> was a single “horror” comic that started in 1940 and was a close retelling of Mary Shelley’s novel. Once the series started, the monster was made into a more modern and endearing creature, but by the twentieth issue, the monster had returned to his original, “scary,” state. <br /><br />This comic is number eighteen in Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein series and came out in 1952. A common similarity between many comics during this time, was the obsessed scientist creating “their own worst nightmare.” The beginning of the 1950’s was a time of McCarthyism and the Red Scare. While the government cemented fear in the citizens about communism, comic book writers, such as Dick Briefer, portrayed that real fear comes from within ourselves and the subconscious mind. Many have read <em>Frankenstein</em> as Mary Shelley’s subconscious thoughts about motherhood and losing her child, a theme, perhaps, Dick Briefer adopted.
Mallory Reetz and Lia Saroli
Image from: https://comicvine.gamespot.com/frankenstein-23/4000-178625/
https://www.tor.com/2010/12/03/a-review-of-dick-briefers-frankenstein/
http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=88edbfec-c672-49ae-924b-6a7d8a22a7aa%40pdc-v-sessmgr02&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=98705626&db=f6h
Dick Briefer and Yoe Books
1952
<em>Scooby-Doo and the Frankenstein Monster</em>
A child's first exposure to Frankenstein's creature.
Similar to the plot of many Scooby-Doo books, <em>Scooby-Doo! and the Frankenstein Monster</em> tells the story of Scooby and the gang who are trying to find the Frankenstein creature because he stole a valuable piece of jewelry. Frankenstein’s creature chases the others around and is trying to scare them away, but it is ultimately discovered that it is a familiar face in a costume. <br /><br />This children's book, published in 2000, is the first time the next generation of students will be exposed to Dr. Frankenstein's creation. <em>Scooby-Doo! and the Frankenstein Monster</em> gives a false sense of the creature because Scooby-Doo portrays Frankenstein’s creature as a voiceless, brute of a character which contrasts Mary Shelley’s fully articulate, emotional creature. The creature in Scooby-Doo is purposefully trying to scare the other people there to get his way, but Shelley’s creature tries to stay out of sight because he knows how people would react. One thing that the Scooby-Doo book does get right is that it is Frankenstein’s creature, and that the creature is not Frankenstein. <br /><br />This book, which also premiered as a TV episode, allows Shelley’s character to live on, even if it is not true to her original work. By appealing to children and serving as a platform for the creature, Scooby-Doo allows Shelley’s work to continue to impact readers everywhere.
Meagan Wander and Skylar Kleinschmidt
This book was found in Shepherd Public Library
Scholastic Inc.
Copyright 2000
James Gelsey
Print
EN-US
Children's Literature
<em>Mary's Monster</em>
<em>Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein</em>
<p>Lita Judge’s <em>Mary’s Monster</em>, published in 2018, explores the events in Mary Shelley’s life that led to her writing <em>Frankenstein</em>. The story of Mary Shelley’s life including her parents, meeting Percy Shelley, leaving home at a young age, and losing a child, is told through a series of poems. Haunting black-and-white watercolor illustrations fill up every page and add to the intriguing story of the creation of <em>Frankenstein</em>.</p>
<p>Judge’s novel is young adult Fiction. This novel encourages young readers to think about what led Mary Shelley to write her iconic novel. This novel offers a different perspective on <em>Frankenstein</em> and Frankenstein’s creature that most popular culture does not portray. Rather than showing Frankenstein’s creature as a horrible monster, this book shows the creature as an incredible production of Mary Shelley’s hardships and experiences. 200 years after the original publication of <em>Frankenstein, </em>Judge is challenging readers to think differently about the novel by understanding what led to its creation. Readers have the opportunity to see Frankenstein’s creature as something born out of tragedy rather than the carelessness of Victor Frankenstein. As many different literary theories do, <em>Mary’s Monster </em>considers the loss and hurt than Mary Shelley experienced which influenced <em>Frankenstein. </em>By informing young readers about Mary Shelley’s life, Judge encourages them to think differently about Shelley’s iconic novel. <em>Mary’s Monster </em>encourages young people to consider <em>Frankenstein </em>in a new way 200 years after it was first published.</p>
Abigail Becker
Judge, Lita. <em>Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein.</em> Roaring Brook Press, 2018.
Roaring Brick Press
January 30, 2018
Lita Judge
Copyright
Print
en
Young Adult Novel
ISBN 978-1-62672-500-3
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Erotic Novel
Rescued from an impoverished life among the Gypsies, raised by a remarkable noblewoman of Geneva, Elzabeth Lavenza was much more than a foster sister to Victor Frankenstein. Together, they forged a sensual bond and entered a world of mythical lore. Theodore Roszak reveals the stunningly passionate story Mary Shelley herself had dared not write.
Theodore Rozak’s The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein alters the perspective from which the original story is told. The audience witnesses the monstrous consequences of masculine scientific hubris as he places Victor and Elizabeth within a counterculture alchemical nature cult, in which the masculine scientific rhetoric of control, power, and influence, are replaced by terms such as “community”, “harmony” and “respect”. In doing so, Roszak brings to the foreground the latent dissident potential into focus. Roszak also uses the story of Frankenstein as a talking point for cultural issues. In the story, Elizabeth is raped by Victor, yet she is still forced to marry him. The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein brings the classic story to the 21st century, highlighting issues we see in today’s society.
Gabi Seida and Jessica Mayhew
The image came from Goodreads.<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/35254.The_Memoirs_of_Elizabeth_Frankenstein">https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/35254.The_Memoirs_of_Elizabeth_Frankenstein</a><br /><br />Information that was used and sourced from<br /><a href="http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/b9789401200011s025">http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/b9789401200011s025</a>
Random House Publishing
April 25, 1995
Theodore Roszak
All rights belong to Theodore Roszak
Print. Also available as an E-book.
English
Novel
Marvel Comics' Creation of Frankenstein
Illustrations and Popular Culture
Frankenstein's Monster first appeared as part of an Atlas Comics publication in September of 1953, and made his official debut in Marvel Comics after the purchase of Atlas Comics in August of 1969. Within the comics, the Monster’s background is the same as Mary Shelley’s novel, with his Marvel story picking up after he has awoken from a frozen slumber. In the comics, Frankenstein initially starts out as a villain, hunting the alleged descendants of Victor Frankenstein in order to satiate his lingering desire for revenge. In his limited series, the Monster eventually experiences a shift from his new villainous persona back to his original one from Shelley’s novel. Afterwards, he is widely considered to be a hero by other characters in the comic universe, and he is occasionally called on for help by characters like Spiderman and Doctor Strange.
By blending Shelley’s novel and Universal films of the 1930’s, Marvel Comics is able to portray the Monster as physically similar to the film interpretations of Shelley’s work, while also staying true to the character that Shelley created at the time of the novel’s publication. His incorporation into further comics beyond his limited series also shows that there is still a prominent interest in Frankenstein’s Monster, and Marvel Comics has continued to explore his character as recently as 2007.
Nick Kisse and Sarah Werth
This image came from Marvel Comics' official website.
(https://www.marvel.com/comics/characters/1011356/frankensteins_monster)
Information that was used and sourced from:
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/23509428?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents )
Marvel Comics
August 10th, 1975
All Rights Belong to Marvel Comics
Print
English
Comic Book