Frankenstien Movie Vs Book

The book Frankenstien by Mary Shelly is a facsinating story. It includes well developed characters, plots, and dioloug. After the book came the 1931 movie, Frankenstien. Their goal was to bring the book to life, creating a mystery and fear in the world. There are a few resemblences, but the only real resemblence is the title. Neither the novel nor the movie are esentially bad, they just each have a different motive and story to what they portray. In the novel the reader sees a very human creature, as he displays many feelings, lusts, and emotions. The creature seems to simply want a friend, but do to his horrifying appearance, cannot find one. The creature also comes to learn of the hate his very own creator feels towards him. Rejection creates in the creature disgust and anger towards mankind. Although the creature's anger grows to an unexceptibal amount of hate, what human would not react in anger towards repeated rejection and crulity? In addition, we also see the creature has a heart to him, especially in the beginning of the book. The creature experiences joy in helping his cottager friends secretly. Their happiness due to his work for them brings the creature pleasure. He grows to experience love for the …show more content…
They go on to show the danger and results of such an expression. With the similarities aside, the development and mindset of the characters is very different in the novel versus the movie. In the novel, each character is deeply and consistently developed. The reader recieves a glimps of each major characters heart and mind. However, in the movie, the characters are poorly developed. The creature is simply a moaning, killing beast. Victor is only an insane scientist and Henry, a cautious friend. Very little is seen in the lives of these characters. Overall, for many, the book will remain the favorite of the two. However, both Frankeinstien stories will remain a