Comparing Mary Shelley's Book And Movie Movies

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Mary Shelley was a prolific writer during the romantic era in american literature. She began her ghost story as a short story. This encouraged her to write her first novel. She worked on it for almost two years. Her novel Frankenstein was published in 1818. The novel was a huge success. Her novel was one of the first science fiction novels written.
Mary Shelley’s story and other directors’ movie films have some similarities but more differences. In the first film, “Frankenstein,” by Wale James he creates frankenstein as a monster. That is a difference because in Mary Shelley’s story frankenstein is created to be friendly. (wale)
The second film “The Curse of Frankenstein” when frankenstein came alive his first mindset was to kill, because when

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