"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been adapted to a film about the dangers inherent in the quest for personal glory at the expense of all else". Discuss

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a movie simply about the deadly ambition of one man, Victor Frankenstein. Throughout the movie he blatantly disregards the dangers such as consequences of his actions which in turn lead to his downfall in Love, Family, and His sense of community also affecting his marriage/love. Victor playing the role of god trying to create a life in turn results in personal and Social Chaos. As the film begins we are …

…to now captain he simply says in a relaxed but steady tone "Home", we here see that he does not wan to fall into the same fate that Victor did". Frankenstein is a movie about Personal glory at the expense of all else, whether that be ambition, love, family etc, it will always end in tragedy, because, over ambition blinds you to what is really important, and that's what Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is all about.