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Many monsters in Victorian British novels were intimately connected with the protagonists, and representative of both the personal failings of a character and the failings of the society in which he or she lived. By contrast, more recent film adaptations of these novels depict the creatures as arbitrarily engaging in senseless violence, and suggest a modern fear of the uncontrollable. This work analyzes the dichotomy through examinations of Shelley's Frankenstein, Stoker's Dracula, H. Rider Haggard's She, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, and consideration of the 20th century film adaptations of the works.
Abigail Burnham Bloom has written several books and many articles on Victorian writers, including the Carlyles and the Brontës. She lives in Southampton, New York.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 CREATOR AND MONSTERFrankenstein, by Mary Shelley (1818) Frankenstein, dir. James Whale (1931) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1994) 2 THE DUALITY OF GOOD AND EVILStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert LouisStevenson (1886) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, dir. John S. Robertson (1920) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, dir. Rouben Mamoulian (1931) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, dir. Victor Fleming (1941) 3 BEAUTY AND ETERNAL LIFEShe, by H. Rider Haggard (1887) She, dir. Lansing C. Holden and Irving Pichel (1935) She, dir. Robert Day (1965) 4 MAN AND ANIMALThe Island of Dr. Moreau, by H. G. Wells (1896) Island of Lost Souls, dir. Erle C. Kenton (1933) The Island of Dr. Moreau, dir. Don Taylor (1977) The Island of Dr. Moreau, dir. John Frankenheimer (1996) 5 VAMPIRE AND VICTIMDracula, by Bram Stoker (1897) Nosferatu, dir. F. W. Murnau (1922) Dracula, dir. Tod Browning (1931) Bram Stoker’s Dracula, dir. Francis Ford Coppola (1992) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index