THE EVOLUTION OF THE FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER AS A METAPHOR OF THE CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC’S ACCEPTANCE TOWARDS TABOO

The Frankenstein’a monster has always been one of the prominent image of the grotesque and marginalization in countless horror productions. Its creation was meant to challenge God and eversince its creation, the monster has become the embodiment and reference of sin, transgression, failure, and taboo in many literary works. Over the years, the image of the Frankenstein’s monster has been adapted into many film productions and simultaneously, its image has evolved from the grotesque to a more pleasant appearance. In further discerning to this matter, three Frankenstein’s monsters from different corpus have been analyzed using the concept of Entextualization under the discipline of Comparative Literature. The first monster is taken from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, followed by the Frankenstein’s monster in the film Van Helsing and finally the monster is taken from the Japanese anime Soul Eater. Through the lense of Entextualization, the findings indicate that the original monster’s traits of grotesqueness and marginalized have been shifted to a more pleasant, heroic and accepted, with significant roles. This transitional figure is somehow seen as a reflection of the social pattern in accepting social taboo. The discipline of Comparative Literature is also utilized to observe the degree of convergence and divergence found in the chosen corpus. This study have contributed to the expansion of horror and social studies.