What was the point of the movie 'Frankenstein'?

Question

Who was really the 'badguy'? How do you know, and what did this person say to give himself away?

OK, I'll give you a hint: Evil father...

Answer 1

Frankenstein was the creator not the monster. Its a modern day Prometheus story.

Answer 2

Frankenstein was the irresponsible tinkerer who realizes after the fact the monster he has created and placed in the world. He is analogous to the atomic physicists who realized later how much awesome power they had placed in the hands of a belligerent mankind. That is why Einstein and Company spent much time pleading for peace.

Even today some have to wonder about the evil uses of genetic engineering, computers, robots, and just science in general. How do you feel as a scientist giving a kid matches to play with?

Some say that the creator should love his creation. In the case of Frankenstein's monster, the monster was all too ready to quickly act on his negative emotions and murder when he felt like it. Superior to man, a race of these free willed monsters would have surely one day dominated or destroyed mankind. What choice would the creator then have, but to destroy or imprison his own creation if they were as such.

Answer 3

Dr. Frankenstein was the bad guy for bringing the dead back to life. The monster (like Curly of the Three Stooges) was just a victim of coicumstances.

Answer 4

Frankenstein was a good guy, and the point of the movie was to show that there is beauty in something seemingly ugly, but society's standards of what's good and what's bad can dictate the life and death of anyone.

Answer 5

To forever scare people with the idea that scientists are foolish and dangerous.