Frankenstein Movie And Book Comparison Essay

The story of Frankenstein is well known and often remade inaccurately. Looking at the original story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the movie that is most accurate, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it is seen that there are many similarities and differences. The movie’s abundant similarities to the novel allow for the movie to carry the name Frankenstein and even include the original author’s name. The book and movie share a similar storyline, but the movie strays from the novel in certain scenes and in details of various characters.
The movie and novel both share the same storyline. As seen in both works, Victor goes away to Ingolstadt University where he makes his monster. The important detail in both works is that once he creates the monster
For example, Victor’s mom dies in each work, but of different causes. In the novel his mother dies of scarlet fever, while in the movie she dies during the birth of his younger brother William, which then acts as one of the driving forces behind Victor’s quest for creation in the movie. Furthermore, the movie changed the people in the cabin from a young man and woman along with the young man’s blind father, to a family with two kids and their blind grandfather. The movie even included the addition of characters to help develop it’s plot. Professor Waldman is created for the movie where he is Victor’s mentor. He shows Victor his current work and agrees to have Victor aid him. Professor Waldman is killed, and Victor takes his journals to continue his work. Victor is warned by the journals that “ the reanimated being is hideous and malformed” (Mary Shelley’s). Although the same name and plot is shared for the novel and movie, there are differences in scenes and characters throughout the movie when compared to the original novel. The novel and book are able to tell the same story even though the works have their differences. Like most novels turned into movies, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein made changes to the scenes to help condense a long novel into a movie, and to make the movie more appealing and dramatic. In the end, the story of Frankenstein is the same in both works, regardless of both the minor