Movie Analysis Notes Sheet for 1931 version of Frankenstein

Mr. Steel

 

1. What is the mad scientist’s name?

 

2. What is his fiancée’s name?

 

3. What is the name of the fiancée’s male friend?

 

4. What is the name of the hunchback?

 

5. What is the name of the old medical school professor who taught the mad scientist?

 

6. How is a brain chosen for the monster?

 

7. With what criminal/insane activities is the mad scientist charged by his old professor?

 

8. Where is the mad scientist’s laboratory?

 

9. What were the three sorts of things upon which the mad scientist experimented?

 

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10. How did the mad scientist propose to animate his monster?

 

11. To what does the mad scientist compare himself when he brings his creation to life?

 

12. Who is Baron Frankenstein?

 

13. What does Baron Frankenstein suspect is keeping the mad scientist from his wedding?

 

14. What kinds of questions are thought to be crazy, according to the mad scientist?

 

15. How is the monster kept under control at first?

 

16. What scares the monster?

 

17. What sets the monster on his path of destruction?

 

18. What happens to the hunchback?

19. How does the professor propose to kill the monster?

 

20. Who does the monster meet by the lake?

 

21. What happens to this person and why?

 

22. What happens to Elizabeth during the wedding festivities?

 

23. What causes the mob to form in the town?

 

24. From whom does the mob seek leadership?

 

25. How many search parties are formed?

 

26. Where do the mad scientist and the monster meet?

 

27. Where does the monster take him?

 

28. What happens during the struggle between the mad scientist and the monster at the end of the movie?

 

29. How is the monster destroyed?

 


 

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