Frankenstein: summary and differences between the film and the book

The story of Victor Frankenstein is a fiction story. It was written by Mary Shelley. It tells the tragedies of a man who disobeyed the nature trying to avoid the death and creating life. But he forgot something in his experiment: the importance love and care. His egoism and ambition lead him to the suffering and the solitude.

The story ends with tragedy, death and sadness, but there’s hope too, because it gives a warning. This story teaches what we can’t ever do, what needs to be changed to avert doing mistakes in the future. We need to know that life is something very serious. This message is received by the captain of a boat and his crew, who will bring this knowledge to the rest of the world.

There are some differences between the book we have read (an adaptation of the original) and the film directed by Kenneth Branagh (1994):

First of all, Victor had more brothers in the book than in the film, and his mother died because of a disease, not because of some problems in the birth of Victor’s brother. In the book, Victor meets Henry Clerval when they are child, not in the university (film). Moreover, Henry doesn’t know his intentions, but in the film he is always with Victor and he advises him to stop the experiments.
In the book, the monster strangles Elizabeth, but in the film he pulls out her heart. Also, in the book, Victor doesn’t do anything with Elizabeth’s inert body, while in the film he revives her.

In spite of these differences, the story is very original and it makes some conflictive questions about the progress of the science. I am a bit surprised because this problem was questioned in 1818 and it’s still a relevant topic. I think the book is better than the film because when I read the book I imagined some things different than what I’ve watched in the film.