Similarities Between Frankenstein And Alice In Wonderland

Living in a world where the lives between normal and abnormal are quickly being cut off with a society falling in a false way of life, people still see things as part of the group or not. The acceptance of society is the main theme. A lot of people hesitate and pull away from what they are afraid of or do not understand. The characters of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” in their own way must deal with the fact of being an outcast, and unfortunately an outsider of society. They must find out what is acceptable and unacceptable in society. Throughout Mary Shelley’s novel, she introduces her main character Victor Frankenstein as the “Mad Scientist” who is the creator of his ugly Monster. Throughout his obsession for his own scientific creation, he is left to be an outcast to the world that surrounds him. The emotional baggage Victor carries with him worsens over time, which pushes him further away from society. His selfishness also causes a split in his connection towards society. By the end of the novel he is a delusional man, bent to destroy his life’s work, whether it’d be by his destiny to become a “god”, but his lack of human understanding is …show more content…
She starts analyzing her experiences, and questions if she would see herself differently when she arrives back home. Her sense of reality begins to be unclear with the “reality” of the foreign land of Wonderland, which causes her to become further away from the society of Wonderland. It is, of course, Tim Burton’s way of using irony again because through her experiences at Wonderland, she was continuously trying to make sense of the world of Wonderland. Throughout the movie, unlike the previous novel of “Frankenstein,” Alice becomes well balanced with her own society and is let in to full enjoyment of