Frankenstein - COMPOSTELA
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Frankenstein - COMPOSTELA
TEACHER'S GUIDE Didactic Project BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein 2 INDEX B 1. JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSAL 3 2. OBJETIVES 3 3. METHODOLOGY 4 4. ACTIVITIES 5 BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE… Before A SESSION 1: SYNOPSIS AND CHARACTERS ACTIVITY 1: SYNOPSIS ACTIVITY 2: THE CHARACTERS ACTIVITY 3: SEQUENCE OF EVENTS 8 8 10 12 SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING THE PLAY ACTIVITY 1: TALKING THE TALK ACTIVITY 2: WHAT IS HAPPENING? ACTIVITY 3: FAMOUS MONSTERS 13 13 15 17 SESSION 3: THE ENDING ACTIVITY 1: WHAT HAVE I DONE? ACTIVITY 2: WHAT DO YOU THINK? ACTIVITY 3: FILL IN THE GAPS 18 18 20 21 AFTER THE PERFORMANCE… After SESSION 4: EXPRESS YOURSELF! ACTIVITY 1: WHAT DID YOU THINK? ACTIVITY 2: EMAIL A FRIEND ACTIVITY 3: YOUR TURN! 22 22 23 24 BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein 1. JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSAL • Theatre as a tool for stimulating and encouraging the student to discover, learn and apply the language he/ she has learned. • The plays present social content and are also focused on an educational/student environment that will allow the students to identify with the values contained therein. • The scripts, apart from allowing the play to be performed in the theatre thus creating the recreational and aesthetic aspect, also help to develop communicative functions, vocabulary and grammatical structures. These can be worked on beforehand in class using a series of worksheets to facilitate understanding of the plot and contribute to language learning. This didactic material is adjusted to the level of the students according to the objectives stipulated for the relevant level by the Ministry of Education 2. OBJECTIVES: General: • Listening to and understanding messages in a variety of verbal exchanges, using the information transmitted to carry out specific tasks. • Expressing oneself and interacting orally in simple and common situations, using verbal and non-verbal procedures and adopting a respectful attitude. • Writing a variety of texts with different endings, with the help of templates and models. • Reading a variety of texts in order to understand them, extracting general and specific information for a preestablished goal. • Valuing a foreign language as a mean of communication and understanding between people with different places of origin, culture and languages. • Acquiring knowledge of linguistic, geographic and cultural features of the country where the foreign language is spoken. • Understanding that theatre is a source of pleasure and personal enrichment, thus fostering his/her interest in it. Specific: • Fostering an interest in taking part in oral exchanges about routines and situations from daily life in the foreign language. • Working on language prosody: aspects of phonetics, rhythm, accentuation and intonation. • Familiarising the student, from the start, with the plot and different characters in the play, in order to facilitate comprehension of the performance at the theatre. • Developing two communicative functions per level, providing the student with all the syntactic, grammatical, lexical and phonetic knowledge that make up the said functions in order for the student to be able to grasp them. • The four basic skills that each reader needs to develop in order to communicate optimally will also be worked on: listening and reading comprehension (L.C. - R.C.) and written and oral expression (W.E. - O.E). 3 BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein 3. METHODOLOGY Presentation of Material: The didactic worksheets included with the material, available to both students and teachers, are designed to be completed over four 60 minute sessions. The idea behind this is for the worksheets to be integrated into the class routine, reinforcing or applying previous knowledge or introducing new but simple content for a specific level. Material Structure: The objective of the first, second and third sessions is to give the students the necessary preparation in order for them to be able to watch the play without any comprehension problems on the day of the performance. The fourth session will be focus on expression. After having seen the play, the students will be allowed to express their opinions on the performance (comparing the actual ending with the ending they had previously imagined; comparing the behaviour of the actors with their own). 4 BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein 5 BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE The sessions are structured as follows: OBJECTIVES SESSION 1 Activity 1 • Familiarisation with the plot • R.C. • W.E. • Familiarisation with the characters • W.E. • Understanding the play • R.C. • Testing Knowledge • W.E. • Testing knowledge • L.C. • Talking about the play • O.E. • Listening to a song • W.E. • L.C. • Giving opinions • O.C. • Discriminating sounds • R.C. Activity 2 Activity 3 SESSION 2 Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 SESSION 3 Activity 1 Activity 2 SKILL Activity 3 BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein 6 AFTER THE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES SKILL SESSION 4 Activity 1 • Talking about the play • O.E. Activity 2 • Writing opinions • W.E. Activity 3 • Making up the end • R.C. • W.E. • O.E. BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein SELECTED APPROACH: Although our main objectives are to foster interest in theatre and to help the student to grasp two new communicative functions, our approach is intended to be entertaining, visual and communication-based. Indeed, on these worksheets, we can find many activities presented in the form of games, which also provide moments of fun in class. Finally, all sessions require the students to express themselves, with activities focusing on situations from daily life, or even role play. As such, our goal is to offer activities as an alternative to the routine of the classroom routine and to make learning a second language more appealing. All of this work is presented as project of the utmost interest: seeing a play in a foreign language. ADVICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Before starting on the worksheets and the activities proposed therein, the students must have a copy of the play in order to go on to read it. Similarly, given that there are many activities requiring useful and modern resources, there must also be a CD player in the classroom for listening to the scenes and songs. All this material (play, CD, worksheets) is available on the following website: www.recursosweb.com In the student section, the sessions are spread out over several worksheets. It is advisable to make as many copies as there are students as soon as possible. As soon as the students have the worksheets, they will be able to complete them, following the instructions given for each exercise and with help from additional materials such as dictionaries and reference manuals in class. In the teacher’s section, you will find all the activities designed for the students as well as all the correct answers to the questions. The activities on the didactic worksheets are designed to train the four basic skills in foreign language acquisition: Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Written Expression and Oral Expression. Through these skills, a range of vocabulary, grammatical structures and phonetic aspects are developed in order to acquire a series of communicative functions that we consider to be key for understanding the play as well for applying them to real situations. In addition to working on the four basic skills, the sessions follow a sequential order. It is important to complete every session, from the introduction of the plot to the storyline and characters, culminating in the resolution of the play. It is therefore necessary to complete the didactic worksheets before going to see the play in order to reinforce overall comprehension and, at the same time, create a sense of anticipation of what students may feel upon leaving the theatre. 7 BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 8 SESSION 1: Synopsis and characters Activity 1. Synopsis Before you read the synopsis of the play, match the correct word to the correct definition. Two of the words have the same definition. WORDS 1.CORPSES 2.CEMETERY 3.GROTESQUE-LOOKING 4.HIDEOUS TERRIFIED 5. 6.ACCIDENTALLY 7.WIFE-TO-BE 8.A CATCH DEFINITIONS 6 to do something unintentionally 7 a woman who is going to get married 1 dead bodies 5 extremely scared 8 problem 3-4 very ugly 2 a place where dead people are buried BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before SESSION 1: Synopsis 9 and characters • Synopsis The play is set in 18th century. Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who is doing an experiment to create a living creature using the body parts of corpses which he digs up in the cemetery. He is not sure that his experiment is going to work but, before he knows it, he has created a grotesque-looking creature. The Creature is so hideous that people are terrified when they see him! The Creature accidentally kills Victor’s brother while trying to befriend him and, as a result, he asks his creator, Victor, to destroy him because his life is so lonely and he has no friends. However, the Creature then meets Victor’s lovely wife-to-be, Elizabeth, and decides that, instead of destroying him, Victor should create a wife for him too. This way, he believes he would be happy because he would have someone to share his life with. There is only one catch, the Creature doesn’t want just any wife, he wants Elizabeth! What will Victor do…? Can you use the high-lighted words from the text to make your own sentences? corpses cemetery grotesque-looking hideous terrified accidentally wife-to-be catch BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 10 SESSION 1: Synopsis and characters Activity 2. The Characters After reading the synopsis, you already know about three of the main characters from the play – Victor Frankenstein, the Creature and Elizabeth. Below is a list of all the main characters: VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN: A young scientist BOY: Finds Victor Frankenstein’s diary from 18th century THE CREATURE: Victor’s creation ELIZABETH: Victor’s wife-to be HENRY: Victor’s friend WILLIAM: Victor’s brother JUSTINE: A gypsy girl ERNST: A policeman The following sentences provide information about each character. • Write questions using the sentences as the answers. The information you need to ask for is highlighted in bold. Use the words - who, what, where, how etc. Sometimes there is more than one possible answer. The first example has been done for you. VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN: A young scientist Victor Frankenstein has done a fateful experiment. e.g. Who has done a fateful experiment? BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before SESSION 1: Synopsis 11 and characters BOY: Finds Victor Frankenstein’s diary from 18th century The young boy is from the present. (From) When is the young boy (from)? THE CREATURE: Victor’s creation He was created from dead people’s body parts. How was the Creature created? (From) What was the creature created (from)? ELIZABETH: Victor’s wife-to be Elizabeth is going to marry Victor soon. What is Elizabeth going to do? HENRY: Victor’s friend Henry is a scientist, like Victor. What is Henry? What does Henry do? What is Henry’s job? Who is Henry? WILLIAM: Victor’s brother William was murdered by the Creature (By) Whom was William murdered (by)? JUSTINE: A gypsy girl Justine witnessed the death of Victor’s brother. What did Justine witness? ERNST: A policeman Ernst is investigating the death of Victor’s brother. What is Ernst investigating? BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B SESSION 1: Synopsis 12 and characters Before Activity 3. Sequence of Events • Now that you know the synopsis of the play and the characters, as a class, read the following extracts and number them in the correct order of events from 1 - 5. A. CREATURE: I’m as good as you are, so I deserve a wife like yours. I’ve seen 5 the way you treat Elizabeth. You don’t deserve her. She will be happier by my side. I love her. 1 B. BOY: (Reading Victor’s diary) First day of the experiment: I have collected almost all of the human pieces I need to start the experiment. Finding a compatible human brain seems to be harder than I thought. 3 C. CREATURE: I’ve suffered. I ´m suffering. You have created me, but your work is not finished. You have created me…and now, you must destroy me. 2 D. SILENT SCENE: The Creatures gets closer to him and tries to talk to him. William gets scared of his face and starts screaming in panic. The Creature tries to cover his mouth but he cannot control his strength and strangles little William. 4 E. CREATURE: I’m alone and a miserable. People are afraid of me. But someone as deformed and horrible as I am would not hate me. I want a wife. My wife must be alike and she must have the same defects as I have. You must create her. I demand a wife for me. BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before SESSION 2: Understanding The Play Activity 1. Talking the Talk • Read the beginning of the play as a class (Track 2). You will notice some colloquial phrases high-lighted in bold. (We see a BOY sneaking into an abandoned chateau. It is the old house of VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN. It is full of dust, spider webs and the furniture is covered with sheets.) BOY: Holy smoke! This place is soooooo cool! Looks like it’s been abandoned for a while… (The BOY examines the room and enters the laboratory. On the laboratory table he finds a book full of dust.) BOY: (Reading the title page.) Victor Frankenstein. Medicine student… What a nerd! I wonder who this Victor Frankenstein was… (The BOY moves to one side.) BOY: (Reading.) November 19th 1819…. BOY: Is this for real? This book is crazy old, man! I wonder if they had Facebook back then... BOY: (Reading.) First day of the experiment: I have collected almost all the human parts I need to start my experiment. Finding a compatible human brain seems to be harder than I thought. BOY: What the...? This dude collected dead body parts?! What a freak! Why would you want to hang around stiffs? Those things reek! My grandma is 80 and she smells like BO... Imagine one of those dudes... whatever... BOY: (Skipping a few pages.) December 13th 1819. Sixth day of the experiment: Everything is ready in the laboratory. The musician’s brain is perfect for the skull that I already had, the nervous system has been adjusted properly. I hope the electrical power will be enough to bring the Creature alive. Now I just have to wait for the perfect storm. (A roll of thunder is herd, the BOY is scared.) 13 BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 14 SESSION 2: Understanding The Play (Lights up. We see VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN working. It is an image from the past. The BOY continues to read.) (The laboratory lights up and we see VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN working. It’s an image from the past. The BOY keeps reading in the present.) BOY: Oh shoot! It’s started to rain! That sucks! Maybe I should just hang out in this crib till it stops... this book, man! I had never read anything beyond the cover... but this is, like, addictive! There’s something about it... I can’t put it down... I’ll read a little bit more... • Now that you have read the extract, can you guess what each of the highlighted words or phrases means in context? Match them up with following synonyms and definitions. 1. HOLY SMOKE! 12 house 1 Wow! 2 great 2. COOL 3. NERD 4. CRAZY 3 somebody who studies all the time and doesn´t have many friends 5. DUDE 4 very 6. FREAK 10 7. HANG AROUND 8. STIFFS 9. REEK 10. BO 11. THAT SUCKS! 12. CRIB 9 body odour - the smell when someone has not washed for a long time. smell bad 7 spend time 5 a guy 8 dead people 6 a strange or different person 11 What a pity! BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 15 SESSION 2: Understanding The Play • Do you have any colloquial expressions to say the same thing in your language? Activity 2. What is happening? • Listening to the dialogue between Victor Frankenstein and the Creature (Track 15) and answer the following questions: 1.How will Victor kill the Creature? He will shoot him. He will bury him. 4He is not sure, he needs Henry’s advice. BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 16 SESSION 2: Understanding The Play 2. Does the Creature want to live or die? 4Live. Die. He is not sure. 3. What does the Creature demand from Victor? A friend. 4A wife. A quick and painless death. 4. How did the Creature get the idea for his demand? By reading about it in Victor’s diary. 4By listening to a conversation between Victor and Elizabeth. By listening to conversation between Victor and his friend, Henry. 5. What does the Creature threaten to do if Victor refuses his demand? 4He will destroy Victor. He will run away. He will kill himself. 6.Does Victor agree to his demand? 4Yes. No. He says he needs time to think about it. BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 17 SESSION 2: Understanding The Play Activity 3. Famous Monsters • Can you name these famous monsters or monstrous characters? Dracula Frankenstein Werewolf Zombie Mummy • Can you think of any other famous monsters? • Now it’s your turn! Imagine you are a brilliant scientist like Victor Frankenstein, and can create a monster of your own. How would you bring your monster to life? What materials would you use to create it? Think about how it would look, speak and move. Also consider where it would live, what it would do – would it terrorise people, or would it be a friendly monster? In groups, brainstorm some ideas and present them to the rest of the class. BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 18 SESSION 3: the ending Activity 1. “What Have I Done?” What is rhyme? • Read the lyrics from the song and try to predict the missing word. Each missing word rhymes with the previous high-lighted word. The first example has been done for you. What have I done? oh, what have I done? Become a killer in the night run Become a dog on the ____________ (1) And have I fallen so far And is the hour so late hate That nothing remains but the cry of my ____________ (2) The cries in the dark that nobody hears years Here where I stand at the turning of the ____________? (3) If there’s another way to go ago I missed it five minutes ____________ (4) My life was a war that could good never be won this girl with a ____________ (5) heart came to my home with good intentions and she is going to find herself dead head we’ll kill her in order to use her ____________ (6) BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 19 SESSION 3: the ending I am reaching, but I fall And the stars are black and cold What have I done? What have I done? Become a killer in the night run Become a dog on the ____________ (7) And have I fallen so far What have I done God on high Hear my prayer In my need You have always been ____________(8) there She is young she is afraid Let her rest blessed Heaven ____________ (9) • Now, listen to song (Track 22) and check your ideas. BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 20 SESSION 3: the ending Activity 2. What do you think? • As a class, read this dialogue between the Creature and Victor (Track 24). The dialogue takes place after the Creature sees the wife that Victor has created for him. (The CREATURE examines JUSTINE’s face and body finally he speaks.) CREATURE: I don’t want her. VICTOR: You don’t want her? What were you expecting then? She is more than what you deserve. CREATURE: What I deserve? I’m as good as you are, so I deserve a wife like yours. VICTOR: What do you mean? CREATURE: I’ve seen the way you treat Elizabeth. You don’t deserve her. She will be happier by my side. I love her. VICTOR: Never! This is going too far. I have created you, and now I must destroy you. HENRY: Victor calm down. CREATURE: Be quiet! I will kill you, Victor Frankenstein. • Who do you feel more sympathy for? Who do you see as the victim? Victor, or the Creature? Do you think The Creature deserves to have Elizabeth as his wife? • Discuss your ideas as a class, giving reasons for your opinions. Use the following phrases to help you… In my opinion… From my point of view… I believe that… The way I see it… BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein B Before 21 SESSION 3: the Activity 3. Fill ending he Gap • In the following scene (Track 26), the policeman, Ernst, comes to give instructions to Victor and Elizabeth. Complete the gaps by using the words below. **Tip: First decide what type of word you need to fill each gap. For example, a noun, a verb, an adjective etc. CONTROL TORTURE FEARS TRUST SURROUNDED AFRAID SAFE DANGER CLEVER PLEASURE JUDGE ASSURE (The next day. VICTOR and ELIZABETH are in the living room.) surrounded The Police has the chateau (1) ____________________. VICTOR: safe ELIZABETH: Then we are (2) _____________. Perhaps. VICTOR: Never keep anything from me. ELIZABETH: Victor, you must always (3) ___________me. trust afraid I was (4) _____________ . VICTOR: ELIZABETH: Of what I would think? fears Of what you would say. A thousand other (5) ________too. Most of all that VICTOR: you would (6) ____________ me mad. judge torture must have been for you… ELIZABETH: What (7) _______________it You can never know. VICTOR: ELIZABETH: Poor darling. (ERNST enters.) I (8) ______________ you Victor, the Creature will not escape. I have a ERNST: assure thousand police officers surrounding the chateau. You don’t know him as I do. He’s very (9) _____________ . VICTOR: clever then? ELIZABETH: There is no (10) _______________ danger pleasure It will give me (11) _______________ to destroy him. Everything is under ERNST: control (12) ______________. There’s only one thing missing: Justine, The gypsy girl. We cannot find her. BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein A After 22 SESSION 4 : Express Yourself! Activity 1. What did you think? Now that you have seen the play, let’s talk about the experience…. 1.What was your general impression of the play? I thought it was ….. because… 2.What did you like the most? The best part was… The funniest part was… The most entertaining part was… The most enjoyable part was… funny exciting boring entertaining clever inspiring enjoyable BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein A After 23 SESSION 4 : Express Yourself! Activity 2. Write your own review! • Imagine you are a journalist for your local newspaper. You need to write a review of the play giving your opinion about the following … • The plot • The actors • The script • The costumes • The scenery • The music Below is the opening paragraph of the review. Continue with your own thoughts and ideas. Last night I was lucky enough to be invited to the premier of “Frankenstein”. The theatre was buzzing with excitement as the curtain went up, the audience ready to be entertained! … BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein A After SESSION 4 : Express Yourself! Activity 3. Your turn! • As a class, read the ending of the play again (Track 28). Now, in groups, pretend you are the writers of the play and invent your own ending. Write your own script and act out your new endings for your class mates. (The lights fade, ELIZABETH shouts in panic.) ELIZABETH: Aaaaah!!! Who is there? Why did you switch the lights off? Ernst? Victor? (She lights a candle, we see a shadow standing at the door.) CREATURE: (He is holding a gun.) We have met before, haven’t we? ELIZABETH: You…. You are the monster. Victor! Victor! (Crying.) Please! Don’t harm me. (ELIZABETH cries and screams in panic.) CREATURE: (With malice.) Even your cries for mercy give me pleasure. You must die, and Frankenstein must suffer. ELIZABETH: Who are you? You, you… are the Creature, but I remember this voice… it sounds so familiar to me. CREATURE: We met some time ago. (With a quick movement the CREATURE grabs ELIZABETH from behind Now she cannot move.) ELIZABETH: Please! Victor! Let me go please… Don’t harm me! CREATURE: I’m sorry Elizabeth; it’s not your fault. It’s my fate which makes me cover my hands with blood over and over again. This face, the infection which poisons our love. This face which only got slight from others is responsible for everything, but soon you’ll forget, we’ll forget. You’ll be a wonderful wife Elizabeth. The best wife anyone could ever imagine… (Enter VICTOR.) Elizabeth!!! VICTOR: CREATURE: We have a guest, Elizabeth! Good night Victor, welcome to the show. Now, my wish comes true. You have truly made my night! Your suffering will now be so cruel that you will never forget… Free her! (CREATURE laughs.) Do what you like, just let her go! Have you no VICTOR: pity? CREATURE: Pity? Mercy? (To ELIZABETH.) Your lover seems strange. Pity… Did you ever show pity to me? Why should I show pity to you when you never had it with me? Don’t make me laugh again Victor, please! (CREATURE laughs.) 24 BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein A After SESSION 4 : Express Yourself! I love her! Does that mean nothing? I love her! Show some compassion! VICTOR: CREATURE: The world showed no compassion to me! Nothing can save you now, except, perhaps, Elizabeth... She will never be yours! VICTOR: CREATURE: There’s nothing you can do to avoid it… Just make her my wife. Kill her and afterwards you’ll turn her corpse into my new creature, my wife. That way she will live forever. Buy her freedom with your love! Refuse my request, and you send your lover to her grave! If you don’t do it she will pay for your disobedience with her death and of course your death too. This is the point of no return! How can I know that after killing her you will not kill me as well? VICTOR: CREATURE: I still need you. I need your help to make her my wife. I cannot do it without you. Once you’ve done it, I won’t need you anymore. I will keep my word: Once I have my wife I will go away forever with her. You will never see us again. I will never bother you again… VICTOR: (Doubting.) But… What if… CREATURE: I know. You will suffer forever. Whatever choice you take your suffering will be immense. There’s no right choice Victor, but in one of the choices Elizabeth will live forever… Make her my wife or send her to her grave. VICTOR: I can’t do it! CREATURE: You try my patience! Make your choice! (The CREATURE is about to kill ELIZABETH, but suddenly she turns to face the CREATURE and gently touches his face.) ELIZABETH: Why do you want to kill me? You think I cannot love you just the way you are… CREATURE: Elizabeth… VICTOR: (Shocked.) Liz… ELIZABETH: I have always loved you… You don’t need Victor to make me your wife, let’s escape from here, let’s start a new life together. Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you, you are not alone... (She kisses the CREATURE passionately.) (The CREATURE collapses and let the gun fall from his hand. With a quick movement, VICTOR grabs the gun from the floor, and ELIZABETH runs into VICTOR’s arms. The CREATURE realises how pathetic the scene is, he takes a look at himself and feels miserable. He looks at VICTOR and ELIZABETH and understands everything.) 25 BACHILLERATO Y CICLOS FORMATIVOS DE GRADO MEDIO Frankenstein A After SESSION 4 : Express Yourself! CREATURE: How could I think you would ever love me? What kind of life could I offer you? How foolish I was. A body can be transformed, but a heart won’t. VICTOR: (Mad.) Now I will kill you… CREATURE: Do it please! There’s nothing left here for me to live for… ELIZABETH: NO! (She approaches the CREATURE.) Don’t do it… Please Victor, don’t… VICTOR: Elizabeth, stay aside! ELIZABETH: This poisoned face does not cause me horror anymore… Don’t you see there’s good in him? (To the CREATURE.) Deep in your soul lies real goodness, real love. Never forget it. My heart belongs to Victor, but I will always remember you. Go now; don’t let them find you… CREATURE: (He falls on his knees.) I love you, Elizabeth. (She gets closer and touches his shoulder crying. 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