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- Title
Family Resemblance: Frankenstein's Monster and the Phantom of the Opera in Penny Dreadful (2014-2016).
- Authors
Babilas, Dorota
- Abstract
The Creature of Frankenstein never managed to fulfil his desire of finding a loving partner in Mary Shelley's novel, but his symbolic progeny continues to haunt modern popular culture. The article discusses the case of "family resemblance" between Frankenstein's Creature and the title antihero of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. In their respective literary sources, they share an inborn deformity, an appreciation for music, a romantic yearning for love and acceptance matched with sociopathic violence. Recently, the TV series Penny Dreadful elaborates on these allusions, conflating the narratives by Shelley and Leroux, as well as their later adaptations.
- Subjects
FRANKENSTEIN'S monster (Fictional character); FRANKENSTEIN: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Book); SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; FICTION; LITERARY criticism; PHANTOM of the Opera, The (Book); LEROUX, Gaston, 1854-1942; HUMAN abnormalities; MUSIC &; violence
- Publication
Lublin Studies in Modern Languages & Literature / Lubelskie Materialy Neofilologiczne, 2019, Vol 43, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
0137-4699
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.135-143