I am writing this letter with complete indignation after watching your film version of my novel, Frankenstein. I know these pages will be splattered with contempt for your work, but I ask that you keep reading. Please try to understand my opinion, even though I’m sure you won’t want to. It is the least you owe me. My first issue with your work is that you made the Creature the villain of the movie! In my novel, he is a sensitive, clever, and jaded creature. I wrote his part so that his thoughts and emotions screamed his humanity at the reader. People are supposed to sympathize with the Creature. He is abandoned and afraid after being brought into a world that he knows nothing about. I portray him as a child learning. He figures out that fire
