My Comments on Worksheets: Frankeinstein

Frankenstein

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What is the difference between the movie and the novel?
· Does the movie help you to understand narrative structure of the novel?
· Do you think the movie is helpful to understand the viewpoints of different characters?
· What do you think about the creation of lady monster in the novel and Elizabeth's look of a monster in the movie?
· Think about Victor's acceptance of Elizabeth and rejection of the monster.
Do you think the director is faithful to the novel?

First, Kenneth Branagh is very talented director. He is genius in this art.
He made many changes in the movie. Restoring life of Elizabeth is a big difference, but, there is also many difference he made. Like, the story of De lacy family, Creature's way of learning, and many other things are presented differently. But I think some important things are also missing there. Like, In the novel there is an incident of victor's childhood that, he show lightning in the sky and because of the lightning, one tree near his house burnt. This may be symbol of destroying element of electricity or lightning.
The novel is also called as 'The modern Prometheus' , in the novel there is an incident of monster that he is struggling from cold and found 'fire' and used it for various purpose. These are missing in the film.
Accept these, imprisonment of Victor, Henry Clervel's murder, Case of Justine in the Court, these are not in the movie. That way there is many differences in the movie and novel.
But, definitely movie can help to understand the novel. the process of making creature is shown very well. At some extent, movie can also help to understand narrative structure, but for study, we have to read original novel for it's narrative structure.
Movie can help viewers to imagine the look of both the creatures and process of making them.
According to me, with restoring life of Elizabeth as lady monster, the director made the story more complicated. And the novel is very simple so, because of this complexity, the question of acceptance is raised. which creates doubt in viewers mind.
The director presents the story very well, but movie cannot become so faithful to the novel. Mary Shelly's novel is very simple and with many symbols, but the movie raised many questions in the case of lady monster and Justine's case.
Still, Movie is wonderful and perfect in the sense of audio visual form of novel. But the novel shows genius of Mary Shelley.