Not about Monsters

#2 OPITION

For me, I actually read the novel first before watched the movie of Frankenstein. The novel mainly tells the story about the scientist Frankenstein, including how he create the monster and the characteristic before it got mad about the human and after that. All narrative description shaped the monster as a kind monster with ugly faces, which caused people are afraid of him. After Frankenstein failed to keep his promise to get him a female partner, it changed to be evil and destroy the city to relieve his feeling. However, the movie “Frankenstein” followed the same story routine but seems to be more superficial, because it focus more on visual impact while the novel by Shelly has something deeper and profound to inform us.

  In the movie, the most memorable and impressive part is that the monster is so scary and ugly that everyone get scared of him. The scene that the monster destroy and kill is really impressing, but in my opinion, if you want to know more, or to say, know the authentic principle that the author want to tell you, you must read the novel. Without the image and scene, the novel provides me with the information about industrial revolution and the problems and opportunities that they were facing at that time. The story reflects Shelly’s worry about the rapid development of science and industrial. This is also the reason why Frankenstein, the name is firmly tied to the monster, but the monster remains nameless. Though it seems like the story is all about the monster, it actually provide inner meaning to warn people of pursing scientific development blindly will lead to some controversial tragedy. And this is presented by depicting the figure of Frankentein and all the effort and struggle of him.