Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is a novel that's inspired various movies and plays. Often times, directors add drama to their adaptions, to better please their audience; thus making some adaptations vastly different from the book. Kenneth Branagh's version of Frankenstein stayed close to the main theme of the novel, but there were major distinctions which changed the overall idea of the movie. This adaptation stays close to the original idea of the character Victor creating a monster in a desperate search for knowledge, but adds its own spin to the film. However, there are similarities in the morals emphasized by the movie and novel. Reading the novel and watching the screenplay adaption showed that even though the book varies in multiple ways the theme is evenly illustrated in both. I noted in various scenes of the motion picture, the story had been significantly upgraded from the novel for visual purposes. A standout amongst contrasts was that in the book, Victor's mother passed away from Scarlet Fever even though she got it while nursing Justine's aunt back to health again. However, in the film Victor's mother dies while giving birth to her second child, William. A sudden and nearly inevitable death in the motion picture, was more intriguing and faster than if film had demonstrated her slowly deteriorating from Scarlet Fever. A quick death may hold the viewer's attention better. Additionally, I noted that close to the start of the motion picture, Victor took his family on a walk and there was a lightning storm. While strolling through this lightning storm, Victor set up a machine that demonstrated to his family the way that he could exchange power from lightning to their bodies. Although this scene never happened in the novel, I thought that it was useful to the understanding of the story because it illuminated Victor's lust for knowledge of science, which he later uses to create life. The film showed his hobbies by means of a fascin