Compare and contrast Frankenstein

Have you ever seen Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein without reading the actual book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley? If so, one might have of wondered does Branagh stay close to the plot of the book. Branagh did not stay too close even considering all the other Frankenstein movies made, especially in relation to Victor Frankenstein. There are several scenes with Victor in them that in the movie strayed from the plot of book. The foremost would be the creation of the monster in Ingolstadt. The second is the death of Elizabeth and her reincarnation. Thus there are there scenes in which to compare and contrast.
The first scene is the one when he created the monster. There were many similarities in the first scene such as a monster spawned as an end result from both book and the movie resulted in a monster. The monster was also created from human parts in both the movie and the book. It was true that he had lost touch with his family back in Geneva in the book while he was so intently focused on being able to in his own words: “banish disease from the human frame� This led to his isolation in both the movie and book as in this quotation: “One secret which I alone possessed myself was the hope to which I had

There are many differences in this scene as well. For example in the movie Victor Frankenstein had much inspiration. First his mother died and even though that happened in the book as well he was still planning to go to Ingolstadt and to study as shown in this quotation: “When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt…my mother sickened…She died calmly…”(Shelley 28-29). Second, M. Waldman becomes a quasi-mentor to young Victor Frankenstein in the Branagh’s movie’s plot while in Shelley’s original plot he was just the friendlier teacher. In Branagh’s version he was an older wiser version of Victor that had already attempted a similar experiment and was very close but decided to stop before things went out of control and was not persistent as Victor was. Though Victor’s persistence could be due to his youth and if he was wiser when he attempted it when he maybe he would have stopped before it was too late. When Waldman dies it fuels his inspiration and persistence (in the movie this does not happen in the book) and thus he creates the monster. The movie also became a little more scientific than the book with the eels and the acupuncture at certain pressure points to make the monster live. Incidentally there are many differences in this scene concerning Victor.

I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labors, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, pursued nature to her hiding-places.”(Shel