Frankenstein story
Frankenstein is a 2025 American Gothic science fiction drama film produced, written, and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley. The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature, with Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz in supporting roles. The story follows the life of Frankenstein, an egotistical scientist whose experiment in creating new life results in dangerous consequences.
43 total · 5 choice · 12 major · 26 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| loneliness | choice | The Creature was lonely and condemned to a life of solitude. It tried to convince Victor to create for it a companion, but Victor refused. |
| maker and monster | choice | The story explores the tortured relationship between Victor Frankenstein and the miserable creature he created. |
| obsession with a life-dedicated project | choice | Victor Frankenstein was maniacally fixated on "curing" death through science. Because Victor refused to fall in line by ceasing his research in the reanimation of corpses, he was expelled from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. |
| the flip side of immortality | choice | The Creature lived as an outcast from society and longed for death, but could not die because its flesh regenerated almost instantly from any injury. |
| the need for companionship | choice | The Creature was condemned to a life of solitude, and demanded of Victor to fashion for him a companion monster. |
| brother and brother | major | Victor and William Frankenstein had a frosty relationship as youths, but warmed up to each other as they became older and wiser. |
| coping with being an outcast | major | The Creature lived as an outcast from society and longed to die. |
| engaged couple | major | William and Elizabeth very nearly tied the knot, Victor's attempts to get between them notwithstanding. |
| hubris | major | Victor Frankenstein was determined to conquer death itself by reviving the dead using electricity. He shockingly asserted that "Perhaps God is inept!" when told by establishment figures that the giving and taking of life was the sole province of God. He followed through on his allegedly blasphemous plan by bringing life to a patchwork man assembled from miscellaneous body parts, but the result was a monstrosity. In short, Victor put himself above God with catastrophic results. |
| mad scientist stereotype | major | Victor Frankenstein isolated himself in a Gothic-looking laboratory where he maniacally set about bring life to a patchwork man assembled from the body parts of hanged criminals and fallen soldiers. |