es and defiant personalities. When Caroline is dancing with Victor she refuses to stop because of her condition, and when she is dying giving birth to her child she screams at her husband to save the baby and not her. Elizabeth shows the same stubborn streak when she refuses to wait for Victor to come to her, and instead travels to Ingolstadt in order to bring him back with her. When he refuses to leave his work, she stays in a city rampant with cholera until he changes his mind. Brannaugh was able to make his female characters strong where Shelley’s could not because it is acceptable for women of today to act like that, whereas in the 1800’s it would be considered a terrible act of disobedience. In the movie Victor arrives in Ingolstadt with the intention of becoming a doctor. He meets professor Waldman who becomes his mentor and provides him with the starting knowledge he needs to perform his experiments. While giving vaccinations to the townspeople Waldman is killed by a man who pulls out a knife and stabs him in the belly. Frankenstein does everything he can to bring his mentor back, but his efforts are in vain. In the text, Waldman does indeed become Victor’s mentor but he is not killed. Brannaugh used the death of Waldman to stir Frankenstein’s drive to reanimate the dead. Also, this provided him with another opportunity to add blood and gore to a scene with the intention of showing Victor’s relentless hatred of death.After the death of Waldman, Victor begins to collect body parts to construct his being. When he has finished his creation, he places the body on a rack and begins the spectacular reanimation process. In comparison to the book this scene is totally overdone. The text shows a solemn Frankenstein looking over the body of his creation with horror as its yellow eyes look up at him. There is no dramatic electrical show or mechanization involved, just Victor on the floor awakening...
