On my previous blog, I had mentioned comparisons on modern books versus older books, like Catcher in the Rye and Harry Potter books versus Shakespeare and Frankenstein. After speaking with our professor, it was declared that it would have been to hard and too difficult to use all the books, especially finding them online because more modern ones won’t be easy to find. So I have decided to focus my final project on one book, Frankenstein. I did enjoy reading it and it is one of my favorite books to this day.
For my project, I am going to showcase the book Frankenstein by first displaying certain texts from the book and how it was made a sensation back when it was published and how through many years of having different adaptations of it through TV, films, and posters. Does the monster look the same throughout all the movies and posters? Does the movies follow the story and plot of the book exactly? I plan to use a website for displaying pictures, videos and text on the remediation of the novel Frankenstein and show how Mary Shelley’s novel has adapted and transitioned differently though out generations using different medias for my project.
This sounds like an excellent project, as Frankenstein remains among the most adapted, restaged, and remediated stories in Western culture. I’ll be eager to see the website that you create, as well as to hear your explanations for (and interpretations of) the various versions of the story that you turn up.