Shelley And Branagh Comparison

The story of a madly driven scientist who becomes afflicted by the life he produced from the dead, from which he discerns he is the true monster. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein she captures how society forms this cliché of how appearance is a large factor of being accepted and loved. Shelly’s story was brought to film by Kenneth Branagh where there were a few similarities and numerous distortions. One of the main similarities between these two literature works, is Branagh’s film was still derived from Shelley’s original horror story. Branagh does deserve credit for having brought her work to a screen motion picture, through his artist perspective. In most ways he does stay faithful to the original work such as Victor creating the monster using dead body parts, and how Victor has a fiance, Elizabeth, who is worried about his obsession to obtain a “God-like” figure.

The most manifest idea that Branagh restyles is to truly captivate the horror and journey to seize the revolting monster; and how the theme of isolation and revenge come into play. Some events that he alters from Shelley’s original work is how he goes into detail on the creation of this monster through the dead bodies, brains, and really depicts the horror of bringing the dead to life. Another incident is when Victor and Elizabeth get married on their wedding night, Branagh decides to create a petrifying scene of the monster attacking Elizabeth and ripping her heart out, but in the book she is just simply strangled. This leads to Victor’s depression, as the monster gets lonely in the book he requests to have another creature made to keep him company. But as Elizabeth was killed, Victor was so shot down by the idea of the one person he loved was gone; so he decided to bring her back to life. In the film he brings Elizabeth back to life, with the monster attempting to take her as his