Mary Shelly’s Film vs Novel

October 26, 2009 jyerkie3

What can Mary Shelly show in her film that she can not show in her novel?

Film can portray a novel in many different ways. Film brings the visual form of literature.

The scene that I want to talk about is when the monster finally shows himself to the DeLacey family. The creature helps the blind grandfather, and the grandfather finally relizes he is the “spirit of the forest” and ask him why he never showed him face, and the creature says because everyone runs from him, because he is ugly.

How this shows his true emotions, and the true “himan being” in himself.

In the book Shelly can not show the true emotion that the creature shows in the film.

How he weeps in the woods shows he really does have emoition, he just never taught how to use it.

In Mary Shellys novel she spends a great deal talking about the DeLacey family, when in the film it hardely spends anytime, but I get more emotion out of watching the scene in the film rather then the movie.