Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein not what I was expecting.

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I feel that Frankenstein and his monster are so ingrained in popular culture for over 100 years. Many movies have been made. So why is the book so very different from popular cultures interpretations of the book and its monster. Am I not understanding it? It seems the monster is not a monster at all. He feels and thinks.

Not to mention a load of extra story that I’ve never seen in the movie or media on the book.

So are the movies based on other things? Did they just change it all for some reason?

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