The Ending Scenes
Frankenstein
After years and years of suffering, Dr. Frankenstein chases the monster all the way to the northern pole. Here, he runs into Robert Walton, an explorer. After telling his whole life story, Frankenstein asks Walton to finish the deed of killing the creature if he cannot fulfill it himself. Frankenstein becomes weak and passes away. Soon after, Walton finds the creature mourning over his creator, suggesting that he now has no purpose. The monster then vanishes, stating that he will now commit suicide. After all this, it seems as if Walton and his crew will soon depart back home.
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JURASSIC Park
As the main characters are confronted by two velociraptors in the visitor center of the park, everything points to a horrific ending. However, the T-Rex essentially saves the day by devouring one of the velociraptors. This gives Dr. Grant, Dr. Dern, and the kids time to escape to the jeep where Malcolm and Hammond are waiting. They eventually end up at a nearby helicopter where Hammond looks back on all of his creation and his passion. The group finally flies off over the water and leaves behind all of the chaos and destruction of their lives.
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They both are escaping over water and leaving the world they knew behind forever to leave all their mistakes and mishaps behind. Also, both endings were very suspenseful and took the audience through an emotional roller coaster.
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Victor ends up dying and wants Walton to continue the hunt for the creature while Dr. Hammond wanted to hold on to what he had but he recognized all the faults with his creation. More so, it seems that the novel ended in a much more depressing way that the movie.
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The effects and impact of both these endings are incredible as they both cap off their respective story in such a strong way. On the other hand, both have differences that each affect the overall ending emotions. Frankenstein and its ending is very abrupt and leaves the audience in awe. So much occurred throughout the whole novel and in the ending and once the roller coaster ride ended, the audience had to sit back and recover from the suspense. It created a real, but more of a morbid tone in the end. On the other hand, Jurassic Park seemed to have a more tense ending with the dramatic fight between the dinosaurs. Once the characters escaped, it seemed like a more uplifting ending full of relief. This created a much more different emotion at the end than Frankenstein. Regardless, both the novel and the film utilize, symbolically, similar endings, but each has their own twists and differences that each create vastly different tones in the end.