“We feel as if something within us, in our blood, has been ignited. It's not just a phrase, it's a fact. It was the forehead that established the electrical contact... We are dead people without feelings, capable, by some trick, by some dangerous magic, of continuing to run and kill. the devastation was massive. Human well-being has declined as has progress in Europe. James Whale shaped his surroundings during this period in his personal adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." The monster created by Whale symbolizes a wounded soldier who has been forgotten and driven out or cast aside by a depressed economy. This film is characteristic of the post-war years with the hope of reconstruction, the deterioration of the community as well as the individual and the erection of destruction. This theme of resuscitation is presented through the use of death in economic and procreative positions. Whale's creation of the character Dr. Frankenstein and his generative role in a dark underground laboratory can be seen in an iconic arena analogous to fighting on a battlefield. When you think of a battlefield, death is almost certainly the first thing. What is usually overlooked is the potential for struggle and death as first steps on the path to a new existence. The comparison between Frankenstein's laboratory and the battlefield should be that of death leading to new life and a new beginning. However, in the 1931 film Frankenstein, we discover that any achievement of this new existence simply returns the community to a harsher and unforgiving reality. In the 1910s, film adaptations and stage productions preceded Whale..... . middle of paper......being born. A German author who also served in World War I, Ernst Junger, said that "combat is not only destruction, but also the masculine form of generation." In Whales' "Frankenstein", the creature is the recreation of man where the female is seen as one with the male creator. Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory symbolizes the combat zone in which James Whale saw several men dead or seriously injured and disfigured. In the minds of survivors, it was believed that those who had died were “in a better place.” Therefore, the dead would rise again and become a better version of themselves, like the parts of mutilated corpses forming a massive man/creature that was greater in size and significance than the individual men they came from. This is where the male scientist assumes both male and female roles in procreation..