My thesis concentrates on Kornél Mundruczó, the contemporary Hungarian film and theatre director, and it compares and contrasts two works of art produced by him. It is a comparative analysis of his theatrical adaptation, the Frankenstein Project, and its film version, the Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project. The interpretations mentioned above are loosely based on Mary Shelley’s well-known novel, the Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus which means that my study uses sources not only related to the works of Kornél Mundruczó, but consumes critical essays that discusses the Shelley novel as well. The two reinterpretations reveal long-lived social problems that are sadly, but truly exist today. Discrimination based on sex, the cases when parental responsibilities are not taken seriously, the problematic questions of incest, narcissism and socially created monsters and ghosts are only a examples among the various topics that occur in both works.