martes, 23 de octubre de 2007
group 3 (Martina Schvarzstein, Nicole Aizenberg, Nicholas Damiko and Lautaro Benito)
After being rescued from near death, Victor Frankenstein tells Robert Walton the story of his growing up in a warm Swiss family and his fascination with studying how life was formed. He was an amateur scientist who created a "perfect" human from spare body parts - only to have his plan backfire when the monster turned out to be extremely ugly and frightening.After observing a family living in a small cottage, monster Frankenstein had the courage to look for an invitation before getting rejected again. He looked for revenge of the person who created him.During his trip back to Geneva, Switzerland - the monster met Frankenstein’s younger brother and killed him for revenge. After his brother’s death, Frankenstein went back to Geneva and found the monster canvassing the same woods his brother was last seen, coming to the realization the monster was responsible for this brutal act. After a short trip to the mountains, the monster caught up to Frankenstein and ordered him to create a female monster from scratch for companionship. After agreeing, he scaped to England to start and scrapped the project , citing the possibility of more confusion. Knowing his days were numbered after Henry Clerval’s murder, he married his cousin Elizabeth only to find his new wife killed by the monster later.After paying a visit to the cemetery to meet with his fallen family members, Victor realizes that his life’s goal from that point forward was to hunt down the monster and kill him. Before, Victor already determines his fate and goes ahead with his wedding day, knowing the monster would catch up to him. Now, he planned to kill the monster to save humanity from his threat. Victor followed him all over Europe and the North Pole, where he temporarily loses track of the monster through a crack in the ice where he also meets Robert Walton and his crew. Ambitious, Victor gives a lecture on how glory was his weakness and the dangers of being too ambitious, citing "tranquility" as one of life’s goals.
Group 4: Setting and characters (Ariana, Michelle, Martina and Tali)
The narration is developed in the eighteenth century and takes place primarily at three locations: at Geneva (homeland of Dr. Frankenstein), in university and almost always in different forests and mountains, all isolated and dark places.
The constructions in the eighteenth century were glum, dark buildings.
Art has a neoclasic or rococo stile.
In this time people communicated by letters.
And the transport were wheelbarrows, horses, carts, boat, an all the middle ages common transports.
Characters:
Víctor Frankenstein:
The doctor Frankenstein carácter does very big changes during the story. At the beginning, when he creates the monster, is a boy who loves books and has a very good heart. When the years pass, his character is more close, until he creates the monster, when he discover what is happening to him. There he knows he needs his family help. Sometimes he feel a bit guilty, cause he let his “boy”, but there he remembers his aspect and think he did something good.
The monster Frankenstein:
He was create by doctor Frankenstein with human parts. The monster is like a naive, good, child. When he goes to the street all the people attak him, he don´t knows the reason and escapes to the forest.
When he see people, feel the necessity to learn to write and talk to like a “normal” person. He get his purpose, but the people get scrary from him. There he knows tha is a monster. At these moment he thinks on doctor Victor Frankenstein, and gets full of hate. There is when he think that if Victor created him, he had to breed anf love him like a son. They are the reasons cause he want a vengeance and hopes that his “father” feel alone.
Alphonse Frankenstein:
Victor’s father. Alphonse consoles Victor in moments of pain and encourages him to remember the importance of family.
Henry Clerval:
He has a very good relation with Victor, he is like his brother.
After working for his father, Henry begins to be a scientist, like his friend, Victor. He is very cheerful.
Elizabeth Lavenza:
She is an orphan, four or five years younger than Victor, who was adopt by the Frankenstein family. She has a love relation with Frankenstein.
William Frankenstein:
He is Victor’s youngest brother and the darling of the Frankenstein family. The monster strangles William in the woods outside Geneva, because he want to hurt his “father”.
Justine Moritz:
A young girl adopted by Victor´s family, while he is growing up. They have a very strong friendship. Justine is blamed William’s murder.
Caroline Beaufort:
The daughter of Beaufort. After her father’s death, Caroline is taken Alphonse Frankenstein. Ater she marries him. She dies of scarlet fever, which she contracts from Elizabeth.
Beaufort:
He is Caroline Beaufort´s father and friend of Victor’s father.
Mr. Kirwin:
He is the magistrate who accuses doctor Frankenstein of Henry Clerval´ s murder.
M. Krempe:
A professor of natural philosophy at Ingolstadt. He dismisses Victor’s study and encourages him to begin his studies anew.
Robert Walton:
His letter open and close Frankenstein. He help doctor Frankenstein and hears his story. He records the incredible tale in a series of letters that he send to his siter,Margaret Saville.
Peasants:
A family of peasants: A old man, De Lacey; his son, Felix; his daughter Agatha and a foreign woman, Safie. The monster learns how to speak and interact by observing them, but they don´t love him.
M. Waldman:
The professor of chemistry who does that Victor get interest in science.
The constructions in the eighteenth century were glum, dark buildings.
Art has a neoclasic or rococo stile.
In this time people communicated by letters.
And the transport were wheelbarrows, horses, carts, boat, an all the middle ages common transports.
Characters:
Víctor Frankenstein:
The doctor Frankenstein carácter does very big changes during the story. At the beginning, when he creates the monster, is a boy who loves books and has a very good heart. When the years pass, his character is more close, until he creates the monster, when he discover what is happening to him. There he knows he needs his family help. Sometimes he feel a bit guilty, cause he let his “boy”, but there he remembers his aspect and think he did something good.
The monster Frankenstein:
He was create by doctor Frankenstein with human parts. The monster is like a naive, good, child. When he goes to the street all the people attak him, he don´t knows the reason and escapes to the forest.
When he see people, feel the necessity to learn to write and talk to like a “normal” person. He get his purpose, but the people get scrary from him. There he knows tha is a monster. At these moment he thinks on doctor Victor Frankenstein, and gets full of hate. There is when he think that if Victor created him, he had to breed anf love him like a son. They are the reasons cause he want a vengeance and hopes that his “father” feel alone.
Alphonse Frankenstein:
Victor’s father. Alphonse consoles Victor in moments of pain and encourages him to remember the importance of family.
Henry Clerval:
He has a very good relation with Victor, he is like his brother.
After working for his father, Henry begins to be a scientist, like his friend, Victor. He is very cheerful.
Elizabeth Lavenza:
She is an orphan, four or five years younger than Victor, who was adopt by the Frankenstein family. She has a love relation with Frankenstein.
William Frankenstein:
He is Victor’s youngest brother and the darling of the Frankenstein family. The monster strangles William in the woods outside Geneva, because he want to hurt his “father”.
Justine Moritz:
A young girl adopted by Victor´s family, while he is growing up. They have a very strong friendship. Justine is blamed William’s murder.
Caroline Beaufort:
The daughter of Beaufort. After her father’s death, Caroline is taken Alphonse Frankenstein. Ater she marries him. She dies of scarlet fever, which she contracts from Elizabeth.
Beaufort:
He is Caroline Beaufort´s father and friend of Victor’s father.
Mr. Kirwin:
He is the magistrate who accuses doctor Frankenstein of Henry Clerval´ s murder.
M. Krempe:
A professor of natural philosophy at Ingolstadt. He dismisses Victor’s study and encourages him to begin his studies anew.
Robert Walton:
His letter open and close Frankenstein. He help doctor Frankenstein and hears his story. He records the incredible tale in a series of letters that he send to his siter,Margaret Saville.
Peasants:
A family of peasants: A old man, De Lacey; his son, Felix; his daughter Agatha and a foreign woman, Safie. The monster learns how to speak and interact by observing them, but they don´t love him.
M. Waldman:
The professor of chemistry who does that Victor get interest in science.
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lunes, 22 de octubre de 2007
Group 4: Andres Soibelzon
Frankenstein was about a doctor called Victor that was interested in the secrets of the sky and the earth. He was born in Switzerland and study in Ingolstadt, Germany. He was also interested in the "mysterious soul of the men". Victor create a body with many parts of cadavers, and the experiments concluded when the creature wake up and have life. Victor knows about the creature he had made and run away from his laboratory. When he returned to his laboratory the monster was not there. The monster tryed to establish a relation with people but he was rejected because of his appearence and he was full of hate and miserable.
Victor returned to Switzerland to rest with his family and think about what he has made.
Then he decided to go to the mountains. Near MontBlanc he met with the monster. Then the monster told him how he learns to speak watching a family secretly, and he asks Victor for a partner for him because he was too alone. Victor accepts the request and in an island in Scotland he decided to establish a new laboratory. He was finishing his experiment but before he gives life to the creature he decided to kill it. Frankenstein saw this and swears take revenge.
He was going to take revenge killing his best friend and his wife Elizabeth.
Victor follows the creature and he died in a ship.
Victor returned to Switzerland to rest with his family and think about what he has made.
Then he decided to go to the mountains. Near MontBlanc he met with the monster. Then the monster told him how he learns to speak watching a family secretly, and he asks Victor for a partner for him because he was too alone. Victor accepts the request and in an island in Scotland he decided to establish a new laboratory. He was finishing his experiment but before he gives life to the creature he decided to kill it. Frankenstein saw this and swears take revenge.
He was going to take revenge killing his best friend and his wife Elizabeth.
Victor follows the creature and he died in a ship.
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Well done!
We are meeting on Wednesday 24th for our "Class Debate". Be ready to talk about your topic and read some of the articles, especially the plot, so that you`re aquainted with the story.
During this week I´ll also be commenting on your articles and marking them in the Comments section here in our blog.
Good work!!
Jimena
Group 6:Film Versions, by Dominique Panczuch and Sofía Podjarny
Frankenstein is a 1931 science fiction film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and very loosely based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.It was released the 21st of November in 1931 (USA).The film stars Colin Clive, Dwight Frye, Edward van Sloan, and Boris Karloff. The film also features Mae Clarke and John Boles.
The film's name was derived from the mad, obsessed scientist, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), who experimentally creates an artificial life - an Unnamed Monster (Boris Karloff), that ultimately terrorizes the Bavarian countryside after being mistreated by his maker's assistant Fritz and society as a whole. The film's most famous scene is the one in which Frankenstein befriends a young girl named Maria at a lake's edge, and mistakenly throws her into the water (and drowns her) along with other flowers.
In addition to this film, dozens of other adaptations have been made of the Frankenstein horror story (and lots of other variations such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965), Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974) (shot in the same castle and with the same props and lab equipment as the original film), and Frankenhooker (1990).
The film's name was derived from the mad, obsessed scientist, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), who experimentally creates an artificial life - an Unnamed Monster (Boris Karloff), that ultimately terrorizes the Bavarian countryside after being mistreated by his maker's assistant Fritz and society as a whole. The film's most famous scene is the one in which Frankenstein befriends a young girl named Maria at a lake's edge, and mistakenly throws her into the water (and drowns her) along with other flowers.
In addition to this film, dozens of other adaptations have been made of the Frankenstein horror story (and lots of other variations such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965), Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974) (shot in the same castle and with the same props and lab equipment as the original film), and Frankenhooker (1990).
There was also another film made before the edition from 1931 that was, that was the first one made, in 1910 by Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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domingo, 21 de octubre de 2007
Group 2: Background. Written by: Maia Wasserman, Julieta Kompel, Ivana Slipakoff and Julieta Herstic
Frankenstein is a Gothic fiction, a genre of literature that combines elements of horror and romance.
Terror, mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses, Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses are some of the components that appear on gothic features.
It includes: Anti-Catholicism, especially criticism of Roman Catholic excesses. And the stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself.
Frankenstein was written in 1818 by the 19 years old woman Mary Shelley. She and her stepsister used to run off to continental Europe several times. In 1816, they go abroad again, this time spending time with Byron and his friend Polidori in Geneva. Once there, Byron suggested to all of then to write a ghost story. Mary wrote Frankenstein, the only story of the four that was ever to be published as a novel.
It was first published anonymously in London, but it was then known in the third edition of 1831 under her own name.
Frankenstein was the first novel in English to deal with the possibility that science will create a monster that can destroy science, and possibly mankind.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein
By: Maia Wasserman, Julieta Kompel, Ivana Slipakoff and Julieta Herstic
Terror, mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses, Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses are some of the components that appear on gothic features.
It includes: Anti-Catholicism, especially criticism of Roman Catholic excesses. And the stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself.
Frankenstein was written in 1818 by the 19 years old woman Mary Shelley. She and her stepsister used to run off to continental Europe several times. In 1816, they go abroad again, this time spending time with Byron and his friend Polidori in Geneva. Once there, Byron suggested to all of then to write a ghost story. Mary wrote Frankenstein, the only story of the four that was ever to be published as a novel.
It was first published anonymously in London, but it was then known in the third edition of 1831 under her own name.
Frankenstein was the first novel in English to deal with the possibility that science will create a monster that can destroy science, and possibly mankind.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein
By: Maia Wasserman, Julieta Kompel, Ivana Slipakoff and Julieta Herstic
Group 1: Biography (Magali Tyszberowicz, Eliana Tujschinaider, Julian Micheles, Julian Hilale)
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, best known as Mary Shelley, was born in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the second daughter of the political theorist, William Godwin, and the feminist educator, Mary Wollstonecraft, who died ten days after Mary was born. In 1801, William married Mary Jane Clairmont, who was cruel, and didn’t like her step-daughters. Mary’s father gave her permission to visit his library, which encouraged her to write her first poem "Mounseer Nongtongpaw", published when she was just eleven. In 1812, she met Percy Shelley, who was unhappily married to Harriet. They met again in 1814, and escaped to France, because there parents disapproved them. Percy was very self-centred, and paid more attention to Mary’s step-sister than he did to her. In February 1815, she gave birth to Clara, who died in March, and in January 1816, to William. That year, they travelled to Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, where one afternoon, Mary and some friends had a ghost-story writing contest. She didn’t have any ideas, but she heard the other stories, and that’s why one night, she had a walking dream that inspired her to write “Frankenstein”. In December 1816, after Harriet’s suicide, Mary and Percy got married, with their parent approval, and in 1817, she finished writing Frankenstein. Later that year, she gave birth to Clara, and one of her books was published anonymously. In 1818, Frankenstein was published. They moved to Italy, where Clara and William died, and Percy Florence was born. In 1822, Percy Shelley died, and in 1851, Mary died in London.
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/chronology.html
Written by: Magalí Tyszberowicz, Eliana Tujschinaider, Julián Micheles, Julián Hilale (2ºJ)
viernes, 19 de octubre de 2007
Frankenstein(the plot) Por el Grupo 3
Here is the summary of the Marey Shelley´s Frankenstein:
After being rescued from near death, Victor Frankenstein tells Robert Walton the story of his upbringing in a warm Swiss family and his fascination with studying how life was formed. He was an avid, amateur scientist who created a "perfect" human from spare body parts - only to have his plan backfire when the monster turned out to be extremely hideous and unappealing. During a brief study and recovery period with Henry Clerval, his closest friend, Frankenstein’s monster navigated the social scene for human friendship and was turned down again and again. After observing a family living in a small cottage, monster Frankenstein mustered the courage to seek an invite before getting rejected again. The last straw, he ventured out to seek revenge on the person who created him.
During his trip back to Geneva, Switzerland - the monster met Frankenstein’s younger brother and killed him for revenge. After his brother’s death, Frankenstein went back to Geneva and found the monster canvassing the same woods his brother was last seen, coming to the realization the monster was responsible for this brutal act. After a short trip to the mountains, the monster caught up to Frankenstein and ordered him to create a female monster from scratch for companionship. After agreeing, he fled to England to start and scrapped the project midway, citing the possibility of further disarray. Knowing his days were numbered after Henry Clerval’s murder, he hastily married his cousin Elizabeth only to find his new wife killed by the monster later.
After paying a visit to the cemetery to meet with his fallen family members, Victor realizes that his life’s goal from that point forward was to hunt down the monster and kill him. Prior, Victor already determines his fate and goes ahead with his wedding day, knowing the monster would catch up to him. Now, he sought to kill the monster to save humanity from his menace. Victor chases after him throughout Europe and the North Pole, where he temporarily loses track of the monster through a crack in the ice where he also meets Robert Walton and his crew. Ambitious, Victor gives a thorough lecture on how chasing glory was his Achilles heel and the dangerous of being too ambitious, citing "tranquility" as one of life’s goals.
After being rescued from near death, Victor Frankenstein tells Robert Walton the story of his upbringing in a warm Swiss family and his fascination with studying how life was formed. He was an avid, amateur scientist who created a "perfect" human from spare body parts - only to have his plan backfire when the monster turned out to be extremely hideous and unappealing. During a brief study and recovery period with Henry Clerval, his closest friend, Frankenstein’s monster navigated the social scene for human friendship and was turned down again and again. After observing a family living in a small cottage, monster Frankenstein mustered the courage to seek an invite before getting rejected again. The last straw, he ventured out to seek revenge on the person who created him.
During his trip back to Geneva, Switzerland - the monster met Frankenstein’s younger brother and killed him for revenge. After his brother’s death, Frankenstein went back to Geneva and found the monster canvassing the same woods his brother was last seen, coming to the realization the monster was responsible for this brutal act. After a short trip to the mountains, the monster caught up to Frankenstein and ordered him to create a female monster from scratch for companionship. After agreeing, he fled to England to start and scrapped the project midway, citing the possibility of further disarray. Knowing his days were numbered after Henry Clerval’s murder, he hastily married his cousin Elizabeth only to find his new wife killed by the monster later.
After paying a visit to the cemetery to meet with his fallen family members, Victor realizes that his life’s goal from that point forward was to hunt down the monster and kill him. Prior, Victor already determines his fate and goes ahead with his wedding day, knowing the monster would catch up to him. Now, he sought to kill the monster to save humanity from his menace. Victor chases after him throughout Europe and the North Pole, where he temporarily loses track of the monster through a crack in the ice where he also meets Robert Walton and his crew. Ambitious, Victor gives a thorough lecture on how chasing glory was his Achilles heel and the dangerous of being too ambitious, citing "tranquility" as one of life’s goals.
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