Mary Shelley's novel and its adaptations have long been progressive and transgressive. Here's a brief history of feminist Frankenstein:
, Zelda Williams and Diablo Cody’s reimagining of a sci-fi classic, the mad scientist is a teen girl in the ‘80s in search of love. Thisgender-flip imagines our plucky goth girl turned amateur scientist bringing to life the corpse of a handsome Victorian gentleman, then trying to train him to be the ideal boyfriend while keeping his rotting flesh intact.
By the time they took a holiday in Geneva over a notoriously wet summer in 1816, Mary was still not married to Percy and was already infamous among much of polite society. During their trip, stuck inside due to the weather, the notorious Lord Byron proposed that the attendants each write a horror tale. Mary took inspiration from a nightmare she’d had featuring “the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out” and brought to life by a “pale student of unhallowed arts.
Over the decades, the bride would become more a fashion icon than a prominent cultural figure .adaptations and revamps stayed pretty male-focused, from Christopher Lee in the Hammer franchise to Herman Munster to Dean Koontz’s rewrites. In 1985,brought the character to the forefront for a quasi-sequel to the novel that imagined how Frankenstein would deal with a female creation with whom he falls in love. Eva is not monstrous in appearance or attitude.
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