Ludwig Frankenstein
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Ludwig Frankenstein | |
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Wolf Frankenstein (brother)Elsa Frankenstein (daughter) Peter Frankenstein (nephew) | |
Status | Deceased |
Ludwig Frankenstein is a fictional character who appears in the 1942
.History
Ludwig was the son of
Following the apparent deaths of
Initially, Ludwig agreed. After the Monster killed Dr. Kettering in an unprovoked fit of violence and tried to abduct Elsa, he angrily changed his mind and planned to destroy the creature by dissecting the creature. However, the spirit of Henry Frankenstein (also played by Hardwicke without a moustache since Colin Clive had died in 1937) appeared before his son and implored him to reconsider, persuading Ludwig to use his talent at brain surgery to simply give the Monster another brain to replace the abnormal criminal one. Perhaps Ludwig was merely hallucinating. In any case, he was properly inspired to do what his father wished. He made plans to remove the Monster's brain and replace it with that of Dr. Kettering, whom both he and Dr. Bohmer viewed as a model citizen. In so doing, Ludwig hoped that he would end the threat of the Monster forever and clear the Frankenstein family's name.
Ygor persuaded Bohmer (who was secretly jealous of his former student's success) to put his brain into the Monster's head and not Kettering's. When Ludwig tried to stop the Monster, Ludwig ends up mortally wounded. But when the Monster's body went blind, it calls for Bohmer where he finds that he can hear and feel him while not being able to see him. The wounded Ludwig states to Bohmer that the Monster's blood is actually the same as Kettering's blood and not the same as Ygor's blood. It won't feed the sensory nerves. The creature went berserk, killed Bohmer upon claiming that he was tricked, and destroyed Ludwig's laboratory while causing a fire...supposedly destroying itself, as well.
Ludwig was killed in the resulting fire as recounted by his daughter in the succeeding film Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
References
Further reading
- Rasmussen, Randy Loren (1998). Children of the Night: The Six Archetypal Characters of Classic Horror Films. McFarland. pp. 135–. ISBN 978-0-7864-0337-0.