Gabriel Arellano February 22, 2010 Period 3 English Mary Shelly vs. Hollywood The interpretations between the descriptions of the novelization and the movie are obviously different. In Mary Shelly’s book, she describes the monster as having yellow skin and long black shiny hair whereas in the 1931 film adaptation, the monster has (although presented in black and white) green skin, a flat head with bolts from his both sides of his neck. In the story, the monster was intellectual. In the movie, he was not. In the image of the Frontispiece edition, the illustration shows exactly what was described: Tall, strong and having long black hair. The illustration also seems to show some sort of emotion from the monster as you can see that he looks puzzled, confused, and or hurt. In the movie image, the monster is also accurate to being tall and strong but however, he has a flat head and bolts from his neck which was not included in the book. You can also tell by the look of his face that he lacks any emotion (although he actually does in the film) . There are other differences between Mary Shelly’s and Hollywood’s view of Frankenstein. They both have the same qualities but they don’t share the same details. I believe Mary Shelly’s monster is better then Boris Korloff’s monster because not only is it original of her own work but it shows more characteristics of the monster of the novel because it furthermore explains his side of the story (based on his point of view) and it shows his strong emotions about how he feels.