The Image Representation Of The "Birth" Motif

This article mainly researches on five Frankenstein movies which adapted from the fiction Frankenstein. This thesis takes sexual perspective to study on the representation of birth motif on Frankenstein movies, analysises the historical characteristics and cultural connotation they have implicated and discusses the important meaning of birth in an amphoteric society. In the process of adaptation, Frankenstein movies developed the meaning of the birth in the fiction, and reflected various view on birth in different times. We also can figure out those meanings in the fiction through the view of movies.This article divided into four chapters:Chapter one discusses the subversive writing in the fiction Frankenstein which is from description about birth to the birth imagines in patriarchy society. Meanwhile, To find out the impact on audiences'understanding the description about birth in the fiction, chapter one tries to outline Frankenstein movies'different interpretation on birth.Chapter two takes the early versions of Frankenstein movies, the 1910 version and the 1931 version as an research object. From a perspective on the gender order, it analysises the birth scenes in these two movies. Considering their time-background it also discusses the movies'expectation on the reconstruction of gender order and shows the reasons.Chapter three explores the two imaginations of birth in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as well as its spectacle of the representation on birth.Chapter four compares The Curse of Frankenstein with the 2007 version,and mainly analysises their representations and critiques on parthenogenesis.