Before and After

My vision of what Frankenstein was has drastically changed after reading this novel. Through movies and television, I have a vision of the monster as a tall green square-headed monster that waddles and moans with its arms held out in front of him. The Frankenstein depicted in SHelley's novel does not walk in this way and is very educated and speak fluently. This surprised me while reading the novel because I thought I had a good idea of who the monster was coming in. I have never seen a version of Frankenstein that had that big of a vocabulary. The media changed this image in order to make a more entertaining and scary version of the monster. A monster who uses big words and reads Paradise Lost is just not as scary as a silent monster chasing you throught the street.