Adaptation of Frankenstein's monster

Clearly after reading Shelley's Frankenstein the monster that Dr. Frankenstein created has changed quite a bit. I had never known the origin or the real story behind Frankenstein's monster until I read the book just last week. It is not what I had thought at all. I had seen the monster in some cartoons when I was younger and also in Van Helsing (the 2004 film) but they were quite different from the book. After reading the book I actually felt sympathetic towards this monster. It was not his fault that he was created hideous, and that all he wanted was some affection. Yea, he turned into this killing machine but that was only after he was rejected by everybody he was ever in contact with. In the Van Helsing film he was created for evil and to be used by Dracula. He does go into hiding just like in the book, but unlike the book version Frankenstein's monster is not even close to being as intelligent as Shelley portrayed him. In the book, he learns to speak quite fluently and eloquently in no other representation of him have I seen this before. So that is most certainly one of the biggest things that has changed about the monster, as well as how he takes revenge on his creator. Another thing that has changed is that the monster is typically referred to as Frankenstein. Whenever someone says Frankenstein people will immediately think of the monster rather than Victor. Even the name of this blog site is called Frankenstein with the picture of the monster as the back ground. One reason I feel that it is this way is that people are just too lazy to call it Frankenstein's monster since it does not have an actual name. Also the name Frankenstein itself just sounds monstrous so it makes it easy to link the two together.