Term Papers on Translation Lost From The Novel To The Movies

Term Paper Title	Translation Lost From The Novel To The Movies
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Translation Lost from the Novel to the Movies

There are about 26 different editions of the novel of Frankenstein, and every movie that has been made based on the novel is different from the next.  What you read in the novel is not necessarily what you see on the movie screen.  There are a lot of good moments in the book that lost in the translation, of which I discuss below in greater detail.
For viewers of the movies, the famous sentence “It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.”  With a futuristic laboratory an eager assistant and onlookers is how the films interpretations distort the novel (Myth of modern Man, Pg. 2.)
     As readers of the novel know it doesn’t start with a dreary night in November, yet it starts with a series of letters by Captain Robert Walton.  These letters are the “framework” of the novel that set up the whole story.
     The beginning setting of the novel set in the Arctic Sea, which is totally left out of the movie depictions, for one reason or the other it would seem to be a perfect setting for Victor Frankenstein, a man coldly detached from society (Myth for Modern Man, Pg. 3.)
     Frankenstein’s research was not done in some fancy laboratory it was done in the little attic of his boarding house at school.  Also Victor never shared his secrets with anyone, not his fellow students or his professors.  He never had an assistant in the novel that helped him dig up body parts from graveyards (Myth for Modern Man, 3.)
     “Only parts of the story are familiar to you, that’s because many parts of the novel aren’t even mentioned in the movies.  Missing is the framework created by the opening letters, Victors status as a student (not a doctor), the isolation of the experiments, and the articulate creature that comes to life and seeks out his creator.” (Myth for Modern Man, Pg. 4)
     Transformed by drama and film into a mad scientist, the altruistic young student disappears for the sake of technical effects.  Rather than the atti...

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