What are the differences between the film and the book you read?

1)    Think about the encounter between Walton and Frankenstein at the beginning of the story

2)    Who brought Elizabeth home in the film and in the book?

3)    How many brothers does Victor have? And How old is he when his younger brothers are born?

4)    When did Victor Frankenstein meet Henry Clerval?

5)    How different is the episode of the lightning in the mountains in the two versions?

6)    Who goes and visit Victor in Ingolstadt? Does s/he get there before or after the creation of the monster?

7)    How different is the laboratory described in the book to the one we see in the film?

8)    How did the body become alive?

9)    How different is the narration of the death of William?

10) How different is the meeting in the mountains between Victor and the monster in the two versions?

11) How did Justine die in the film? How did she die in the book?

12) How different are the very first few days of the monster in the two versions? Is there any mention of a cholera epidemics?

13) How do the families by which the monster lives during the winter differ in the 2 versions?

14) How different is the encounter with the blind old man told in the 2 versions?

15) What does the monster learn from the family in the country?

16) What about the episode of the girl who fell into the river?

17) How does Victor accomplish his promise to create a companion to the monster in the 2 versions?

18) What is the reason why Victor decided to stop the creation of a female monster in the film and in the book?

19) What happens to Clerval?

20) How does Victor’s father die?

21) How did the monster die?

22) How different is the monster perspective in the film to what it is in the novel?