I thought this was a good attempt. Hopefully it will be worth a check-plus. It has all of the good stuff of writing compositions - topic sentences, transitions, thesis... Only one more to go for this class, and then I'm on my own for topics to put here.
Note that this is not based on the old black and white film, but the new one directed by Kenneth Branagh starring him and Al Pacino.
Write a response paper for the viewing of the first half of Frankenstein.
One of the more interesting aspects of the movie Frankenstein lies in the obsession of Victor Frankenstein to find a way to resurrect the dead even at the expense of his health, love, and sanity. His obsession forms roots in his home of Geneva when his mother dies during childbirth. Frankenstein’s interest in reanimation takes hold of him through his readings of electricity and its effects on the human form, and later surfaces in his discussions with school faculty when he arrives at university in Germany.
In Ingolstadt cholera runs rampant. The government places quarantine on the populace confining them to the city. Even with the active quarantine and the bodies of the dead filling wheelbarrows in the streets, Frankenstein continues his research into the reanimation of human bodies.
Fortunately, he escapes the danger of physical disease, but his friendships are damaged by the privacy and ferocity of his obsession. Frankenstein continues his research sequestered away in a secret laboratory. He declines his friend Henry Clerval as a visitor, refusing to show him his continued work. When he stops writing home to his love, Elizabeth, she becomes worried and risks cholera to visit him in person. He nearly turns her away as well. Isolated from academia and his friends, Frankenstein labors through his obsession.
Frankenstein finally comes to his senses, but not before risking the remainder of his sanity on a last ditch effort to prove his work. In Ingolstadt Frankenstein takes apprenticeship under the university’s Dr. Waldeman, who warns him of the dangers of reanimating life and forbids Frankenstein access to his research. Frankenstein disregards his teacher’s wishes when he dies and reads the journal. He learns of the secrets of reanimation but of not the moral quagmires in which those secrets lie. He uses these secrets along with the organs of murderers and thieves stolen from the morgue to create the culmination of his research. Unfortunately, the results are monstrous.
Racked with the guilt of his obsession, he agrees to return home with his friends to Geneva. He would put all of his research behind him, as it was a terrible thing to play God in creating this wretched life. Thankfully, he was spared the horror of disease or utter solitude, but the monster will likely still haunt him.
