Shakespeare's famous revenge tragedy Hamlet is a story of unrelenting twists and thrills of madness and revenge. I have chosen to compare this play to Michael Almereyda's film made in 2000 that is a modern interpretation of the original text and was an attempt to do to Hamlet what Baz Luhrman did to Romeo and Juliet. This a brief synopsis of the play; Hamlet is the son of King Hamlet who died before the play begins. …showed first 75 words of 2359 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2359 total…through her subtle and satirical style and techniques. These values, despite facing the constraints of the varying context between early the eighteen-hundreds to the second millennium, are very relevant to all kinds of people and that's why the novel still retains universal appeal despite its age. Frankenstein was produced at the height of the Gothic and Romantic period and as such the value of the text lies most significantly in its reflection of the period.