Most Americans have some idea of ​​who Frankenstein is, due to many Frankenstein films and the popularity of the monster. However, most people's ideas are incorrect about Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster, and the monster itself is not the inarticulate, raging criminal that Robert de Niro shows in the 1994 film version of the novel. Shelley's original Frankenstein was distorted by this Kenneth Branagh film, most likely to send a different message to the film's audience than the one Shelley's novel shows to its readers. The contradictory messages of technologies deserve to be dependent on their creator (Shelley's speech) and poetic justice, or triumph over evil (shown by the film) is best represented by the scene immediately preceding the death of Frankenstein's monster. In Shelley's novel, the final image of Frankenstein's monster reveals important qualities of his inner nature; he is shown in the final moments of his life as dejected, fully aware of his guilt and firm in his decision to end his life. It is the conclusion of a long series of events providing insight into how the monster has changed due to the actions of its creator and the actions of the people it came into contact with. Up until this last point, he went from being good and hopeful, to being caught up in lust for a mate, to being evil and only focused on revenge. All these changes are narrated by the monster himself in this scene. (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine) He was at one time motivated by many good things like virtue and honor, so much so that he wanted a companion to share his happy life. "When I first sought it [sympathy], it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to participate in. . . . A once my imagination soothed by dreams of virtue, fame and pleasure (154) He did not begin as an evil being, but was rather good by nature and exposed early in life to good things (Allen, gs. )Frankenstein's and society's rejection of the monster, however, led him to a passionate and uneven search for a companion. He forced Frankenstein to create a female monster, and he motivated him by killing Frankenstein's loved ones and. by threatening to kill more..