Is the 1994 film Frankenstein true to the mary shelley book?
Differences from the novel Although more faithful to the original novel than earlier films, there remain many differences. – In the film, Victor’s mother dies during child birth, thus William is born. In the novel she dies helping to cure Elizabeth of scarlet fever. – In the novel, the creation of the monster is left ambiguous. It is only mentioned that parts of him have come from a slaughterhouse and that he was made too large (around eight feet or so.) In the film, the brain is from the renegade professor, while the body is from the man who killed the professor. – Victor abandons the monster and neglects its existence while in the film the monster is accidentally hanged and believed to be dead. – Henry Clerval is Victor’s childhood friend, while in the film they are introduced in medical school. – Elizabeth never goes to Germany to help nurse Victor back to health as she does in the film. – The De Lacey family that the monster observes is a wealthy family that had been forced into ex
