... attention from beginning to end, where the book dragged on and was too descriptive at points. Thus, the film version of Frankenstein is far more superior than Mary Shelly's novel. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein is portrayed as a wiz. He creates the Monster through his own studies and experiments, with no help at all ... he took when creating the Monster, which was intriguing, and exciting to watch. Thus, the film version of Frankenstein proves to be far more superior than Mary Shelly's novel. In the film, when the Monster is observing the Delacey family, he does not only learn how to r...

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... and Young Frankenstein were both great movies, though, I preferred Mary Shelly's Frankenstein a little bit more. I"m not really into those old comedies. Anyway that is not the point the point is that both movies no matter how different they seemed to be, were derived from the same original horror story written by Mary Shelly. The movies may have small similarities and that is because they ... both still come from Shelly's original story. Mary Shelly's Frakenstein (the movie) has a strong basis upon the original story. Shelly wrote a horror story it continued as horror movie. The movie i...

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Burns1 Scott Burns Dr. Carol Davison Our Monsters, Ourselves 0101-190 31 October 2002 Monstrosity in Frankenstein The subject of monstrosity and abnormality is a strong theme ofMary Shelly's Frankenstein. According to the Webster Dictionary, the term monstrosity is defined as abnormally wrong, malformed, or outrageously offensive, the monster Dr. Victor Frankenstein is creates fits this definition well. The ... to attack all the wholesome and conservative values which Victor detests and subconsciously battles. The utter hideousness of the creature Victor creates is the physical Burns 2 focus...

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