Frankenstein: the films vs. the book

I’ve read Frankenstein by Mary Shalley and then I’ve seen the film based in the book. There are some differences and now I’m going to tell some of them to you.

- In the film Justin’s mother appears and in the book she doesn’t.

- In the book Victor’s mother dies of an illness, in the film she dies guing birth to William.

- In the film Victor receives a diary form her mother but not in the book.

- In the book appears Ernest, the youngest brother of the family but in the film he doesn’t.


- In the film Victor meets Henry from University but in the book they met during childhood.

- In the book, Victor’s laboratory is in one island in the lake, and in the film it’s near the University.

- In the film the experiment is not totally secret because Victor’s teacher and Henry know about it, but in the book nobody knows anything.

- In the film there is an epidemic.

-In the film, Felix’s grandchild is a boy and in the book is a girl.

- In the film one man asks Felix for money and then he hits him. After the monster saves Felix and they go into the house. This doesn’t happen in the book. In the book the monster saves a girl from the river and this doesn’t happen in the film.

- The photo on the chain, in the book is of Victor’s mother and in the film is a Victor’s photo.

- In the film Justine has to pass a trial and in the book it doesn’t happen.

- The monster kills Victor’s father before the honeymoon in the film but, in the book, Victor’s father dies of sadness when Victor tells that Elisabeth is dead to him.

- In the film the monster plucks out the Elisabeth’s heart but in the book the monster drowns her.

- The body that Victor uses to make the second monster in the film is from Elizabeth and in the book the body is unknown.

- In the film the monster dies with Victor’s body and in the book he doesn’t die.