Reaction Paper for The Bride of Frankenstin (2013-72071)

Name: Fabia, Bianca Anne M.

Student No.: 2013-72071

Section: THY

Reaction Paper for The Bride of Frankenstein

            In the movie, it was explained a bit that the monster was created by Dr. Frankenstein because he dreamed of creating a man. But the monster became a source of fear for the townspeople. No one wanted to get close to him in fear of being harmed or killed. In response to this, the old professor of Dr. Frankenstein contacted him to partner up with him to create man-made people. He also thought of creating a bride for the monster in order to keep him company since the monster was lonely.

            I think that the story of Frankenstein reflects on what happens when men want to play god. I think that it brings up questions in ethics, like is it moral to dig up the bodies of the diseased and use their body without permission from their loved ones? Also, I think that it brings up the question that should we really judge someone depending on what they look like? In the movie, when the people see the monster they run away from him afraid of what they think he might do but when he met the old, blind man, he was accepted in to his home and we saw that all he wanted was a friend who would accept who he is. Looking at that, isn’t that what all of us want? To be accepted by the people around us and to feel loved.

            I think that the film mainly talks about how we should also take into account our morals during scientific experiments, like keeping in mind to follow ethical procedures when conducting experiments. When we keep that in mind, we might prevent creating something that turns into monsters in a sense that it might bring us to destruction.

            Moving on to why the monster was made dumb in the movie, I think that it is because they wanted to convey about the learning capacity of the monster and that what he was doing, hurting humans, was because of their projected ideas of what he going to do to them. I think that it also made him more human in a sense that we are not born smart and that we have to be taught for us to learn. It made it seem like he was a child trapped in a grown man’s body.