and away from the deeper meaning of what is taking place. Indeed, one of the primary problems with the film is that it does not take the time to develop ideas at all. Instead, it moves at a too-rapid pace, glossing over details and speeding ahead at a break-neck pace.
One of the effects of this dedication to speed is that the film fails to develop a believable or horrific atmosphere, while the novel manages to accomplish both these things quite well. In discussing the novel, Maurice Hindle notes that the book is associated with the gothic genre but that there are good reasons for downplaying the importance of this relationship:
Despite its affinities with the Gothic, it is probably a mistake to align Frankenstein wholly within this literary genre. That is because Mary Shelley's "ghost story" breaks with the traditional Gothic tale's medievalism by seeking to engage with affairs and issues of the real world, and of the psychology of real people (Hindle
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