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In reading the book Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and watching the by the same title, I discovered several large differences. Primarily, the edited and modified parts were changed to make the movie more interesting.
In the book, Marry Shelley described everything in great detail. She included details that may not pertain to novel's storyline directly, but more to the timeframe of the novel.
When a movie comes out made after a specific novel, the screenplay eliminates most of these minute differences. For example, the letters in the beginning of the novel were depicted as high action scenes rather than in letter format.
The introduction of the movie was my first difference listed. In the book, the captain of Frankenstein's ship, R. Walton, wrote letters home to his sister about his voyage to the north pole. In the movie, it depicted these letters as action sequences happening in real time.
A couple of in-depth differences in the introduction that jumped out were the big storm......

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