Although in both movies and the book "Frankenstein" is portrayed as a monster there are many different perceptions about of him. In movies the monster will not stop at anything he was only out to hurt or destroy others as appose to the book where he tried to make friends and find someone to cherish and love. The book and movie both show different characteristics which the monster possesses and how they directly or indirectly …showed first 75 words of 617 total…

…showed last 75 words of 617 total…from the next. What you read in the novel is not exactly what you see on the movie screen. There are a lot of good moments in the book that "get lost in the translation". many parts of the novel aren't even mentioned in the movies. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bennett, Betty T. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction. Baltimore MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1998. 823.7 B439m 1998 www.mary-shelley-frankenstein.com http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html