Franenstein

Frankenstein Throughout the years, Hollywood has been notorious for taking classic novels, and turning them into big blockbuster movies. However, in order for Hollywood to make money, they feel the need to make drastic changes to the characters and plot so that the average everyday moviegoer will be entertained. Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus is no exception to this and it can be shown through the many different movies that have been adapted from Mary Shelly’s timeless novel. In the original text, Frankenstein’s monster is portrayed as an intelligent creature that can run like a gazelle and can speak eloquently. However, Hollywood’s version is very different and many differences can be pointed out through the novel. For example, in the novel Frankenstein, the monster speaks eloquently with an impressive vocabulary. Victor Frankenstein encounters the monster on a glacier and the monster speaks with an educated vocabulary when it says, “Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.” (87) The way the creature speaks and how knowledgeable it makes itself out to be highly contrasts the monster in movies such as Boris Karloff’s adaption in Frankenstein where the monster or as it is incorrectly named, Frankenstein, does not even speak English and instead simply groans and does not have any grasp of knowledge. Hollywood directors know that people do not want to watch a movie with an intelligent being because it is not as entertaining. People prefer to watch movies about mindless creatures because it is an escape from reality and the original creature is just too normal for the average person’s taste. Another way that the creature in the novel differs from Hollywood’s version is the time the creature spends