In both publications of Frankenstein whether it was the movie or the novel, we see
             Frankenstein's ill fated life. For a man who is extremely intelligent, he just can't shake off
             his bad fate. The reason I decided to select Frankenstein's ill-fated life had a lot to do
             with the differences between the book and the movie. The plot was entirely different
             between the two but one thing stuck out and pulled the two dissimilar stories together,
             was the depressing life of Victor Frankenstein and the beast that he created.
             Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, classically symbolizes the struggle between
             man and creature. The creature, created under selfishness, fights for acceptance by
             society, and his creator Frankenstein, in turn destroying the lives of others. Both left to
             live a dark, depressing life of isolation, Frankenstein's existence with a healthy and sound
             As for the movie, we see similar but distingued differences. Although the creature
             was created under complete selfishness, Victor(Henry), doesn't feel the dression of
             creating such a beast. Although he does feel sorrow for "Fritz", his handiman, he quickly
             shroughs off the sorrow and feels that it was Fritz's falt for agravating the creator.
             Instead of depression, we see a substitude of anger on behalf of Victor. This anger is seen
             The creature's decline into the hate of all mankind is a ever-present theme
             throughout this novel and the movie. The decline is a less gradual one in the novel but a
             decline none the less. In the movie, we see hate for mankind right from the beginning.
             Can we really blame the creator though? Never even named by his creature, his being of
             unimportance, and his identity is worthless in the eyes of his creature Frankenstein. In fact
             he has no identity, he is looked upon as a monster that was never given the opportunity to
             transform himself as a being. We see a de...