Frankenstein: Differences and Similarities

As we read the Frankenstein's book and we saw the film too, I'm going to compare the book and the film.

Differences
At the beginning of the book the crew saw two sledges on the ice; on one of sledges there was Victor and on the other the monster, on the other hand, in the film there weren't any sledges and Victor went to the ship to find somebody to help him.

In the book, Frankenstein's mother died because she was ill, and in the film she died in labour, and Frankenstein's father helped his wife in labour; in the book, Frankenstein's father wasn't a doctor.
The book speaks of a third son called Ernest, and in the film he doesn't appear.

In the book, Victor explains when he was fifteen he saw a lightning that destroyed a tree but in the film he saw this broken tree when he was an adult.

Then, in the film, Victor meets Henry Clerval at University however in the book, he knows him before he goes to University.

When Victor meets Professor Waldman in the film, Waldman was a very discreet person and when Victor talked with another Professor about life, Waldman didn't want to know anything about this, so he had an experience about this, and Victor discovered it and finally, he can works together with Henry and Waldman; in the book, Professor Waldman helps him because he wants to and he didn't realize about the future experiment of Frankenstein.

In the film there’s a cholera epidemic and the doctors immunize all the people; at the moment that Waldman vaccines a mad man, this man stabs Waldman and he dies; in the book there isn’t a cholera epidemic and Waldman doesnn't die.

Also in the film, Henry Clerval knows about Frankenstein’s experiment, and in the book he doesn't.

When Victor has finished creating the body, Elizabeth goes to Ingolstadt to look for Frankenstein and he didn’t go to Geneva, so he had to put life in that body; Elizabeth helped Victor because he became ill, but later, she went back to Geneva so angry because she thought that he didn’t want to get married to Elizabeth. In the book, Elizabeth didn’t go to Inglostadt.

In the book the monster helps a girl who falls into the water, and then people saw him and they hit him, but in the film this part doesn't appear. Also, when the poor family who live in the hut refuse the monster and they go out somewhere, in the film, the monster burn the hut instead, in the book he didn't do it.

In the film, when the monster kills William, he sees the chain and inside there is a photo of Victor, instead in the book there is only the family’s name.

Also in the film, the monster asks to Victor to make a female for him, and the monster wants Justine’s body; in the book, the monster doesn't say anything about Justine.

on honeymoon of Frankenstein and Elizabeth the monster fullfilled with his promise: he killed Elizabeth; in the film the monster pulls out Elizabeth’s heart, and in the book he strangles her.

In the film, when Elizabeth was dead, Victor revives Elizabeth instead in the book, Victor doesn't do this. Then, Elizabeth realized that she was very ugly and she wasn't the same as before, so she burned herself. Also, as she ran around the house, the house was burned.

In the book, Frankenstein’s father dies when Elizabeth died but, in the film the monster kills the father.

At the end of the book, Victor dies and the monster was lost in the darkness instead in the film, the monster burned himself into the body of Victor Frankenstein.



Similarities

The ship of the film and the ship of the book it stuck in the ice.
Frankenstein has a happy family and Elizabeth was adopted by Frankenstein's family.
Victor always studied hard to discover all secrets about life.

Victor and Elizabethm, in the book and in the film, they are in love and Victor promises her that they’ll get married.

At University, Victor meets Professor Waldman who was one of the greatest scientists in the world and he helps him both in the book and the film.

When Victor was experimenting with life, he didn’t go home, and his letter to his family were very short.

Victor created a body without life and he knew that he could put life into this body with electric energy.

Both in the film and in the book the monster sees a family who live into a poor hut and he helps their. When the monster tries to talk to the blind man and his family sees him, they hit him and the monster goes outside.

In the book William is killed by the monster, as in the film, in the forest, and he was taking the chain. Also, the police thought that Justine was the culprit so they killed her.

The monster asks to Victor to make a female for him, because he feels alone; Frankenstein accepts the offer but immediately, he refuses it. Then, the monster promises that he’ll be with him on his wedding night.

In both cases, the monster goes to North Pole, and Victor pursues him. Finally, Victor dies and the monster is lost in the darkness.

Thirteen VS Adrian Mole

Well, I'm going to compare the differences and similarities between the film Thirteen and The Diary of Adrian Mole.

Similarities
Both stories are about two adolescents that have some problems that come more diffucult.
Adrian and Tracy, the principal characters, are victims of bulling at school: a classmate's Adrian hits him, and Tracy is criticazed by some girls in the high school.
Their parents have problems with alcohol and drugs, so there are a bad athmposhere in their houses.
They both have thirteen years old; they start to drink alcohol and, in Tracy's case, she start to smoke.In the end, both stories finished without problems.

Differences
Adrian is more infantile than Tracy; she's got a bad influence, Evie who takes Tracy in the world of drugs, smoke, alcohol, sex, etc.
Adrian isn't a bad boy, he helps an old man and tries to get his own money working as newspaper's assessor, however Tracy still money to buy somethings.T
racy doesn't feel well with herself, and cut her arm.
Tracy's mother tries to help her daughter and finally all problems solved.These are some elements of the differences and the similitaries of these stories.


Thirteen's film is more shoking than Adrians Mole's story, also because a film always is different than a reading story, so a reading story you can imagine the way that you want.This topic is frequent actualy, I don't know anything like these characters, but I think that it's happen to a lot of adolescents.