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FRANKENSTEIN BEAR
Stitched and Haunting
What
do bears have in common with Frankenstein? Well, first off, toy bears,
like the “monster” of Victor Frankenstein from the book
by Mary Shelley, are stitched together from different parts. But where
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was a horrible looking giant who
frightened people, toy bears are pretty cute and not very scary. Also
some people think real bears are dangerous monsters, but like the creature
brought to life by the science student in the book, most bears just
want to be who they’re supposed to be. The Frankenstein monster
wanted a companion who was like him. Bears pretty much like to be with
other bears.
The idea of a scientist who takes knowledge to a dangerous place which what he creates might want to destroy him, is a very powerful idea, and it came to be used as a reference. The Frankenstein monster got really famous because of movies made about him. The movies that became really popular where not very much like the book, and the monster played by Boris Karloff with make-up by Jack P. Pierce and Pauline Eells, made him very scary but human at the same time. The movie directed by James Whale made Frankenstein with bolts for electricity in the sides of his neck and a flat head, and he walked with his arms out. This became everybody’s idea of what the Frankenstein monster was supposed to be, but he was not at all like that in the book.
Other
movies have come out with different ideas of what the man sewn up from
parts of dead bodies
would look like. He became a really popular
costume at Halloween. There are some cuddly stuffed Frankenstein toy
monsters, and some toy bears have ugly stitches holding them together,
like Major Ursus (but don’t tell him I mentioned it). There are
famous cartoon characters as Frankenstein stuffed plush toys, like Sponge
Bob Square Head, Goofy Frankenstein and Frankenstein Snoopy. There was
even a cereal called Frankenberry, but it was too sweet to be very beary.
Some
stuffed
bears
can be sewn up with scars to make kids who have scars feel better.
A lot of movies and shows
have been made from the Frankenstein story. Leander’s favorite is Mr. Magoo’s Frankenstein. There are
a whole bunch of movie and tv stuff that are coming out about Frankenstein,
a movie about Victor Frankenstein with the grown up Harry Potter (Daniel
Radcliffe) as the scientists friend and assistant and a tv show about
detectives, and there is a new book about the Diaries of Mary Shelley and where the Frankenstein name came from, Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein
Secret Memoirs. She began to write one of the most famous books ever
when she was only 18 years old. She learned a lot of big words to be
able to write it. Her mother was a writer and so was her father, both
who had very radical thoughts for their time. You shouldn’t be
afraid to think a little differently than everyone else, but maybe you
shouldn’t dig up dead bodies.
Frankenstein Mary Shelley at Amazon
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