Now He's Monstrous

The movie and the novel portray Frankenstein's monster in very different ways. In the novel Frankenstein's monster is very intelligent and teaches himself how to do things such as find food, speak, and read. The movie skips all this and shows the monster's throwing a little girl in a pond as his first appearance in town. In the movie the monster doesn't talk he just makes sounds and is shown to be aggressive for unknown reasons. In the book, it explains how the monster got to point where he didn't care to be good to people anymore. The book even had the monster saying that he wasn't a bad person to begin with. In the novel, Frankenstein's monster does good deeds for a family but once he showed himself to them she were frightened. Everything that the monster did that was good, no one cared for. All they saw was a monster. It took a lot of time for the monster to start turning into an actual monster in the novel. Humans treated him bad no matter if he was doing good or doing bad. He got to the point where he got sick of how he was being treated. Even his own creator thought he was evil and didn't give him a chance. This is when Frankenstein's monster started being violent. That is how the monster changed in the book. Over the years I feel like people tweaked what the monster actually was to make it seem more monstrous. Besides the monster's appearance, there wasn't anything monstrous about him in the beginning. The reason the name Frankenstein is so tied to the monster is because he is the creator. Frankenstein is who brought the monster to life. Frankenstein was so excited for his monster to come to life until it actually did. The monster never got a name because Frankenstein was so digested in what he had created. He didn't get a name because he was just a thing, a creature, not a human.