The adaptation chosen in comparison/contrast  to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is a mini screenplay called Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, created and directed by Paul Merelle on February 14th, 2016 with Assistant Director Nathan Marx. This video depicted two young boys trespassing into  a cemetery to kidnap a dead corpse . The two young boys decided to proceed by experimenting with this dead body, and suddenly the  deceased human comes  back to life. The human being seemed to have no soul.  Has the alive human being finished where he left off in his life? What I find interesting watching this video is, the two teen boys seemed to have planned it out  but at the same time didn’t know what to expect. Although, they disappeared afterwards we don’t know what their reaction was. Were they frightened and just ran away? Did they watch from afar to see what would happen once the human becomes alive again?  what I also found interesting was, the human being rising from his bed and walks out of the room as if he knows where he is going even though he seem to not have a soul in his body. He walks to a place which seemed familiar but then all of a sudden he’s helpless and clueless not knowing what to do.

This adaptation is true to the novel because they both demonstrate creating a creature and bringing back life to the dead and leaving it go about on it’s on without any sense of direction. The differences between the novel and the screen play is Victor created an actual creature and the two teenage boys dug up a dead body from the grave. Bringing life into this world means to care for it, train and nurture it properly. It is almost similar to a mother and father creating a life , the mother giving birth and making sure to take proper  care of the newborn child.  In Shelley’s book chapter 4 page 51, Victor says, “Whence , I often asked myself , did the principle of life proceed? it was a bold question , and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted , if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries.” This particular quote makes me wonder if Victor valued life in general. Perhaps the way he treated the creature by avoiding it happened to him in real life. is there a life after death?

https://youtu.be/cosd_X-E5-M