Love Theme in Frankenstein

LOVE THEME IN FRANKENSTEIN

I have chosen to focus on the film Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh, since it is the closest adaptation of the novel over all the Frankenstein films that is made. In addition to this, cinema authorities classify this film as horror, romantic and drama so love theme could be easily understood from this adaptation. However, it should be mentioned that the film has very big deviations from the novel which will be explained later on.
When we say “love theme in Frankenstein”, actually we refer to “lack of love theme in Frankenstein” since all the things in the story that is subject to horror and sorrow are coming from Victor Frankenstein’s hunger for love in his life. To start with our protogonist, Victor Frankenstein, it is not wrong to say that his relationship with his mother builds up the story. His oedipus complex is given from different point of views in the novel and the film, but they both completely gives the impotance of this psychological situation. In the film we see Victor’s strong relationship with his mother from his early childhood, and being the only child and only son for so many years made this relationship stronger.When Caroline Frankenstein dies while she was giving birth to William, Victor promised to find a way to re-create human beings after death, and this is the point where all the story ties up. Also it should be mentioned that after Caroline’s death, Victor places his adopted sister Elizabeth to his mother’s situation. Elizabeth was raised up by Caroline, and after her death she took over her positions in the house such as controlling and managing the household and taking care of newborn William. Victor and Elizabeth’s change of relationship status can be interpreted as a transfer of Victor’s love for his mother to a love for his adopted sister. It can also be interpreted as an incestuous relationship through Freudian psychoanalitic thinking, from the scene of their wedding night where Victor was...