At university, Victor Frankenstein excels at chemistry and other sciences, soon developing a secret technique to impart life to non-living matter, which eventually leads to his creation of the Creature.
Despite his intentions, the beautiful creation of his dreams is instead hideous, with yellow eyes and skin that barely conceals the muscle tissue and blood vessels underneath.
The Creature approached the family in hopes of becoming their friend. Initially he was able to befriend the blind father figure of the family, but the rest were frightened and they all fled their home.
The Creature demands that Victor create a female companion like himself. The Creature promises that he and his mate will vanish into the South American wilderness, never to reappear, if Victor grants his request.
Fearing for his family, Victor reluctantly agrees. He is plagued by the idea that creating a mate for the Creature might lead to the breeding of a race that could plague mankind. He destroys the female creature. The Creature then kills Clerval, leaving the corpse to be found where Victor lands in Ireland.
Seeking revenge, Victor pursues the Creature to the North Pole. Victor becomes agitated, insisting on continuing to search for the Creature, but is too weak from his exertions and dies shortly thereafter.
Victor's death has not brought him peace. The Creature burns himself to death.
故事讲述的是年轻的科学家弗兰肯斯坦为追求和利用当时的生物学知识,从停尸房等处取得不同人体的器官和组织,拼合成一个人体,并利用雷电使这个人体拥有了生命。巨人虽然天性善良,向往美好,渴望感情,但是,由于面貌丑陋,被社会视为怪物,当作巨大的威胁,处处碰壁。他要求弗兰肯斯坦为自己制造一个配偶,答应事成后与其双双远离人间。弗最初应允了怪物,但在接近成功之时,担心怪物种族从此危害社会,于是毁去了女性怪物。苦苦企盼的怪物疯狂报复,杀死弗的未婚妻等几个亲人。弗发誓毁掉自己的作品,追踪怪物一直到北极地带,受尽折磨后病逝,而怪物亦自焚而死。
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
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