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Many monsters in Victorian British novels were intimately connected with the protagonists, and representative of both the personal failings of a character and the failings of the society in which he or she lived. By contrast, more recent film adaptations of these novels depict the creatures as arbitrarily engaging in senseless violence, and suggest a modern fear of the uncontrollable. This work analyzes the dichotomy through examinations of Shelley's Frankenstein, Stoker's Dracula, H. Rider Haggard's She, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, and consideration of the 20th century film adaptations of the works.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 CREATOR AND MONSTER
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (1818)
Frankenstein, dir. James Whale (1931)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1994)
2 THE DUALITY OF GOOD AND EVIL
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis
Stevenson (1886)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, dir. John S. Robertson (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, dir. Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, dir. Victor Fleming (1941)
3 BEAUTY AND ETERNAL LIFE
She, by H. Rider Haggard (1887)
She, dir. Lansing C. Holden and Irving Pichel (1935)
She, dir. Robert Day (1965)
4 MAN AND ANIMAL
The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H. G. Wells (1896)
Island of Lost Souls, dir. Erle C. Kenton (1933)
The Island of Dr. Moreau, dir. Don Taylor (1977)
The Island of Dr. Moreau, dir. John Frankenheimer (1996)
5 VAMPIRE AND VICTIM
Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897)
Nosferatu, dir. F. W. Murnau (1922)
Dracula, dir. Tod Browning (1931)
Bram Stoker's Dracula, dir. Francis Ford Coppola (1992)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
