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Adapting Responsibility: Ethical Transformation in Frankenstein and Its Netflix Reimagining

Author(s) Lieki Drema
Country India
Abstract This paper examines the ethical transformation of responsibility across literary and mass-mediated contexts through a comparative analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and its contemporary streaming reinterpretation on Netflix, with particular reference to The Frankenstein Chronicles. Shelley’s novel foregrounds moral accountability through individual agency, scientific ambition, and creator-creation relationships, whereas the Netflix-era adaptation reframes responsibility within institutional power, surveillance, and collective ethics. Drawing on narratology, adaptation theory, and mass communication perspectives, the study develops an integrative framework linking text, medium, audience, and institution. Using qualitative comparative analysis, the paper explores how ethical meaning is reshaped through audiovisual storytelling, seriality, and platform-driven narrative economies. Findings suggest that responsibility evolves from a personal moral burden in Shelley’s Romantic context to a distributed, systemic concern in contemporary streaming culture. The study contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship by demonstrating how classic literary ethics are reconfigured within mass-mediated environments, highlighting implications for media literacy, cultural memory, and technological governance.
Keywords Literary adaptation, Ethical responsibility, Frankenstein, Streaming culture and Narrative transformation.
Published In Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On 2025-09-05
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