Frankenstein Movie Vs Book Analysis

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I watched the 1931 version of Frankenstein directed by James Whale. As soon opening credits role the first differences between the book and movie are obvious. Henry is Frankenstein not Victor, but importantly, there is no Robert Walton. His exclusion and the importance of his absence is felt right when action starts with Frankenstein digging up a recently buried body. Without Walton there is a lack of narration which mean there isn’t a story being retold, but a movie being watched. The readers don’t get to hear Frankenstein’s backstory, no history is provided on his family or if there is one, nor are they allowed view or judge the characters actions based on the multiple perspectives.
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Once he understands the circumstance of his creation and the abandonment of his creator, he felt “no sentiment but that of hatred” which leads him to take revenge upon Frankenstein’s loved ones (Shelley 98). In the movie monster remains uncommunicative, but physically strong, and loses his temper easily which leads to the first murder and only then does he leave the laboratory.
In the novel the monster murders as he was abandoned by his creator and left alone with “no link to any other being in existence” (Shelley 90). This leads to his “unsupportable misery”, thus he takes revenge killing the Frankenstein’s family knowing the murders sill “carry him despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him (Shelley 95; Shelly 100). In the movie the monster kills too, but he does not kill the innocent. He only kill those who have caused harm to him by their own hands.
At end of the novel after his entire family, less one brother, has been murdered at the hands of the monster and Frankenstein has chased the monster across several contenents, Frankenstein dies in Walton’s cabin. In the movie, he lives and the monster is buried to death by the angry towns
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