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This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" Compared with Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein".
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Frankenstein Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" Compared with Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein".
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Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" Compared with Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein"

Summary: A comparison of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" with the 1970s parody film "Young Frankenstein" by Mel Brooks. The movie uses exaggeration and the unexpected to make the story funny.
The movie Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks is comedy of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, it over exaggerates main characters, plots and settings of the novel. They have Victors grandson, determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein. He insists on pronouncing his name "Fronckensteen" and denies interest in replicating his grandfather's experiments. This is a future look of the Frankenstein family is the future, which is overly exaggerated.

In the novels setting they have Victor living in an apartment, but in the movie Frederick is living in a castle that Victor apparently used to live in, where his secret lab was and plans in a book, inevitably enough tilted "How I did it."

Characters in this movie are based more on humor then the reality of the novel. They have a total different set of characters. They have assistances helping Frederick creating the monster, when victor...

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