frankenstein
Playing with Fire
by Barbara Field
based on the book by Mary Shelley
An exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil — culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, “Why did you make me?”
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