Frankenstein (novel)/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

* Every adaptation of this just bugs me. In the original, the monster is very eloquent, delivers long monologues, teaches himself how to speak fluently (in two languages!) simply by eavesdropping on a family for half a year, and reads books like ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' - in general, he is very intelligent. But whenever the original novel is adapted, the monster comes out speaking [[You No Take Candle]].

** It's [[Adaptation Displacement]]. The movie with Boris Karloff was so famous that it's what comes to mind in regards to Frankenstein's Monster, hence why FM is frequently shown as a simple if tragic, brute.

*** Some adaptations presume that the creature wasn't so much learning speech as ''remembering'' languages once known to the person(s) who'd contributed its secondhand brain.

** Hey, Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein is a 20-year-old college kid; his age change in movies is even worse than Hamlet's! Have any adapters actually read the book?