Movie Review - Frankenstein

Hello, I'm Emisha Ravani.here I'm presenting a movie review of 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'. Accordingly I'll go with first poster of the movie then cast , information about production of movie , briefly story , vivid concepts which are portrayed in the movie, and the video. 

The poster of the movie Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Cast :

Robert De Niro as The Creation

Kenneth Branagh as Victor Frankenstein

Tom Hulce as Henry Clerva 

Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Lavenza Frankenstein

Ian Holm as Baron Alphonse Frankenstein

John Cleese as Professor Waldman 

Aidan Quinn as Captain Robert Walton

Richard Briers as Grandfather ( blind man) 

Robert Hardy as Professor Krempe

Trevyn McDowell as Justine Moritz

Directed by - Kenneth Branagh

Screenplay by- Steph lady, Frank Darabont

Produced by - Francis Ford Coppola, James V. Hart

Cinematography - Roger Pratt

Edited by - Andrew Marcus

Language - English

Story in brief:

This story is happened in 1794, Captain Walton leads a troubled expedition to reach the North Pole. While their ship is trapped in the ice of the Arctic Sea,The crew discovers a man, Victor Frankenstein, traveling across the Arctic on his own. Victor proceeds to tell Walton and the crew his life story, presented as a flashback.

Victor grows up in Geneva with his adopted sister, Elizabeth Lavenza, who will become the love of his life. Before he leaves for the university at Ingolstadt, Victor's mother dies giving birth to his brother William. Traumatized by grief afterward, Victor vows on his mother's grave that he will find a way to conquer death. However, he is shunned by his peers, who view him as a madman. Eventually, Victor and his friend Henry Clerval meet Shmael Augustus Waldman, a professor whose notes contain information on how to create life; Waldman warns Victor not to use them lest he create an "abomination."

Victor builds a creature based on the professor's notes. He is so obsessed with his work that he drives Elizabeth away when she comes to take him away as Ingolstadt is being put into quarantine. Victor finally gives his creation life, but soon regrets his decision and tries to kill it with an axe; the creature steals his coat and is driven away by the townspeople when it tries to steal food.

The creature escapes, running off into the wilderness. He spends months living in a family's barn without their knowledge, gradually learning to read and speak based on observations and memories from Waldman's brain. He attempts to earn the family's trust by anonymously helping them with their failing farm, and eventually converses with the patriarch, an elderly blind man, after murdering an abusive debt collector. However, when the blind man's family returns, they attack the creature and abandon their farm. The creature finds Victor's journal in his coat and learns of the circumstances of his creation. He burns down the farm and vows revenge on his creator.

Victor, who believes the creature to be dead from the cholera epidemic, returns to Geneva to marry Elizabeth. He finds his younger brother William has been murdered. Justine, a servant of the Frankenstein household, is inadvertently framed for the crime by the creature and hanged by a lynch mob before her trial. The creature abducts Victor and demands that he make a companion for him, promising to leave his creator in peace in return. Victor begins gathering the tools he used to create life, but when the creature insists that he use Justine's body to make the companion, Victor breaks his promise and the creature exacts his revenge, strangling Victor's father and tearing out Elizabeth's heart.

Maddened with grief, Victor races home to bring Elizabeth back to life. There, he finds Henry, who tells him he should let Elizabeth rest in peace. Victor stitches Elizabeth's head onto Justine's fully intact body, and she awakes as a re-animated creature. The two are briefly and happily reunited until the creature appears, demanding Elizabeth as his bride. Victor and the creature fight for Elizabeth's affections, but Elizabeth, horrified by what she has become, commits suicide by setting herself on fire. Both Victor and the creature escape as the mansion burns down.

The story returns to the Arctic. Victor tells Walton that he has been pursuing his creation for months to kill him. Soon after relating his story, Victor dies from pneumonia. Walton discovers the creature weeping over Victor's body, confessing that for all of his hatred, he still considers Victor to be his "father." The crew prepares a funeral pyre, but the ceremony is interrupted when the ice around the ship cracks. Walton invites the creature to stay with the ship, but the creature insists on remaining with the pyre. He takes the torch and burns himself alive with Victor's body. Walton, having seen the consequences of Victor's obsession, orders the ship to return home.

Various concepts in movie:

• The concept of deformity

• The concept of outer beauty and inner beauty

• Psychological approach

• Scientific approach

• The concept of society's thinking process

• The concept of false parametersknowledg
• Quest for knowledge

Emisha ravani

mkbu.dept. of english

questions- answers of Frankenstein novel

Questions - Answers of novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

1.why Victor was not able to accept his dream experiment and it's results? 

Ans: Ultimately, victor's life is little miserable here. When his mother died he decided to create human being he went to University. There he used to keep doing experiments with dead bodies. After too much struggle he made a body alive which is huge in size and very weird in look.

Then he thought about his dream of creation of human being it seems too difficult for his professor. Though he did level of hard work suddenly he got result that body was alive but because of horrible appearance and sudden result victor was not able to accept his dream and the result of experience. As the main reason of unacceptance power is very sudden success. 

2. What made creature a monster?

Ans: Creature is the creation of victor so hopefully when creature got alive creature long for acceptance and love because the father of creature is the victor. Here we consider the creature and the victor as the son and father. But as creator's ignorance and hatred is playing vital role to made creature a monster. 

Also society play a role here like from beginning creature only started to get bad experiences from society. Society made creature to feel awkward all the time. And also make him to be rejection because he is strange look only. 

3. Why Society has rejected Victor's idea of experiment and then the result of his experiment?

Vary significantly people are believing that to give a birth or to create a human being is a process which can be done by only God. Human cannot create other human that's what people are believing strong determination of Victor to create human being and to get experiment of that is upset action for society. Society has rejected result of his experiment to get this idea we can apply here the formalistic view. That house society has believe that creature has deformation.

4. Can appearance overpower reality?

Ans: Yes, we live in a society where appearance matters a lot than the reality. Now reality is something else that the creature was like a child who is not aware about this false criterias of society or the parameters of the society. And also he was like a child who is very innocent towards society but how society behaves towards the creature is converted the creature into monster. The process itself done by the force or the centralisation of the society. 
the action of Society and thought process affected a lot to creature in this process. 

5. Who decides what beauty is? Is it for real or superficial?

Ans: Here the conflict between outer beauty and inner beauty is considerable. Society always preferred or the judge people by the outer beauty. Normally they used to make different parameters to measure outer beauty of person. 
We can say that the inner beauty is more difficult to see than the outer beauty and it is the process which everyone cannot see. Inner beauty is something like real and the out outer beauty is like superficial. A person can be horrible by the appearance but he can have sensible heart.

Emisha ravani
mkbu,dept.english

The experience of visiting the art gallery

Hello,i am Emisha Ravani.Today I am writing this blog for the experience of visiting the art gallery which one organised for honouring of the artistic personality who is khodidas parmar by his students. He has contribute a lot to art of paintings. He has developed his own style in the field of paintings. Art gallery consisted such special paintings of ajanta Caves. It was interesting event for the people who are interested in the art specially in paintings. I saw that so many artistic souls were visiting that event and gaining knowledge about various styles and techniques of this field. 

When i visit this event i recall one thing when I was studying in higher secondary at that time in the year if 2018 I painted around 12 paintings of ellora Caves on white cloth and mad two idol of lord Buddha which was showing the example of the carvings of those Caves with the help of the art teacher. I would like to share here one picture of that event.

Mainly paintings are about showing the royalty of people, various stories of people, religious tales, various gods, some paintings are about the emotions of common people, some paintings are about women's life by this portrayed things we can get know that how those people were believing in various aspects of human life.The paintings in the Ajanta caves predominantly narrate the Jataka tales. These are Buddhist legends describing the previous births of the Buddha. These fables embed ancient morals and cultural lores that are also found in the fables and legends of Hindu and Jain texts. The Jataka tales are exemplified through the life example and sacrifices that the Buddha made in hundreds of his past incarnations, where he is depicted as having been reborn as an animal or human.
Here I'm sharing those paintings which are put at the gallery and the original paintings of caves. 

Budhdha

Padmapani

Rajkumaari

Rajvi dampati

Mahatyag

This event was opening by one of special thing the guests were using the lamp or candles to see the paintings as 13 member in the traditions because at the alora and Ajanta Caves paintings getting lost their colours by the light so the tourist have to see the paintings by the lights Of lamp and candles. People of that time used natural colours to make this paintings and still we can see paintings after time passing a lot. 

What material paint used in Ajanta cave painting which is lasting so many years?
The cave paintings were created from 200 BC. 
The process begun with rough stone surfaces being coated with a thick coating of a paste made from clay, cow-dung, animal hair and vegetable fibre.Next, a finer layer of smooth white lime (Calcium oxide) was applied.
Before this was dry, the artists quickly traced the pictures using red cinnabar (Mercuric sulphide), which they then filled in with an slightly rubbery layer of terre-verte (iron-silicate+clay).The pigments, all derived from naturally occurring substances, which were water-soluble (kaolin chalk for white, lamp soot for black, glauconite for green, ochre for yellow and imported lapis lazuli for blue).The pigments were thickened with glue and added only after the terre verte layer was fully dry.

Here I'm sharing a video which has more information about Ajnta caves

Ben Jonson - a literary figure of english literature

 BEN JONSON 

Drink today, and drown all sorrow;

You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;

Best, while you have it, use your breath;

There is no drinking after death.

                                                    -Ben Jonson

Hello, I am Emisha Ravani. Doing my master degree at department of English of maharaja krishnakumarsinhji bhavnagar university. Here this blog is relieving information about a prominent figure of jacobean era and elizabethan era. This is the thinking activity given by professor Dilip Barad sir and it is very interesting task to be done. 

Firstly we will get the information about Ben Jonson. the Great benjamin jonson. He was english Stuart dramatist, poet, literary critic, playwright. In English literature people are considering him as very second of william Shakespeare by the Fame and own contribution in the english literature. He was in the time of the reign of james 1. He was born in London 11 june 1572 and died at london 6 August 1637. He used to write by using the genre of satirical comedy. Major works Likewise, 

 Every Man in His Humour (1598),

 Volpone (1605),

 Epicoene,

 The Silent Woman (1609), 

 The Alchemist (1610),

Bartholomew Fair (1614)

He got his formal education from west Minister School.ended early, and he at first followed his stepfather’s trade, He was working as bricklayer then he joined army and he performed well there too.fought with some success with the English forces in the Netherlands. In 1597 he wrote 'The isles of the dog' collaborate with Thomas Nashe. This work got baned at that time. All the copies were burned. then in 5098 he killed Gabrial Spencer. He got himself into the jail for this too. His life is quite interesting to see.On returning to England, he became an actor and playwright, experiencing the life of a strolling player. 

Jonson apparently wrote tragedies as well as comedies.but his extant writings include only two tragedies, Sejanus (1603) and Catiline (1611).

His plays and notable achievements

Protestant England’s first poet laureate. His major comedies express a strong distaste for the world in which he lived and a delight in exposing its follies and vices.He was easily the most learned dramatist of his time, and he was also a master of theatrical plot, language, and characterization.

Major reputation is for in the field of drama and as well as plays. Still people like to read his works like volpone and everyman in his humour. In this work he tried to portrayed humours from latin comic. Afterwards he influenced so many other writers to use Jonsonian 'type' or 'humours'.



ORIGINAL cover page of his work 



Volpone is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.

Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of the "humours comedy," in which each major character is dominated by an over-riding humour or obsession.

Speciality of Ben Jonson

James 1 was too pleasant for Ben Jonson causewhen Jones provided increasingly magnificent costumes and scenic effects for masques at court. The few spoken words that the masque had demanded in Elizabethan days expanded into a “text” of a few hundred lines and a number of set songs. Thus the author became important as well as the designer: he was to provide not only the necessary words but also a special “allegorical” meaning underlying the whole entertainment. It was Jonson, in collaboration with Jones, who gave the Jacobean masque its characteristic shape and style. He did this primarily by introducing the suggestion of a “dramatic” action. It was thus the poet who provided the informing idea and dictated the fashion of the whole night’s assembly. Jonson’s early masques were clearly successful, for during the following years he was repeatedly called upon to function as poet at court. Among his masques were Hymenaei (1606), Hue and Cry After Cupid (1608), The Masque of Beauty (1608), and The Masque of Queens (1609).

Jonson was a renowned in his unique style of masques. 

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