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1、简 介或许以这个悲伤而恐怖的故事拍成的电影要比世界上由任何其他故事拍成的电影都要多。为什么有这么多的人喜欢它？因为当我们第一次读到它时，它就好像是出自我们梦中的记忆一样。这是一个古老的故事，也是一个新的故事。说它“古老”是因为它创作于一百五十多年以前，那时的科学发展才刚刚起步；说它“新”是因为弗兰肯斯坦的问题也就是我们今天所面临的问题。科学给予我们力量去改造世界，但这种力量也可能与我们作对并毁灭我们。弗兰肯斯坦创造了一个新的人，他比任何其他人都要巨大和强壮然而弗兰肯斯坦控制不了他，这个怪物毁灭了弗兰肯斯坦所爱的一切。今天的科学家正在创造着巨大的机器、电脑和武器，他们声称这些东西对我们有益但我们
2、能够驾驭它们吗？玛丽雪莱（17971851）是维多利亚时代的一位重要作家。她的丈夫是英格兰最著名的诗人之一珀西比希雪莱。1Captain！ Something is moving on the iceLook over there！The sailor stood at the top of the mast， high above the Captain His hand pointed away from the ship， across the miles of ice that covered the seaThe Captain looked to the north， where
3、the sailor was pointing He saw something coming fast towards the ship across the ice He put his telescope to his eye， and through it he could see the shapes of ten dogs pulling a sledge over the ice He could also see the driver of the sledgea huge figure，much bigger than a manThe sledge came nearer
4、and nearer to the sea Soon it was only a quarter of a mile from the shipNo one needed a telescope now to see the huge figure of the driverSuddenly the sledge went behind a mountain of ice and disappeared At that moment another sledge appeared It， too，was moving fast， and was clearly chasing the firs
5、t sledge This driver was a smaller figure， more like an ordinary manFaster and faster the dogs ran；then the second sledge also disappeared behind the mountain of iceTwo hours passed The sledges did not appear again Nothing moved on the ice Soon night came， and in the night there was a storm In the m
6、orning，the sailors saw that great pieces of ice were floating round the shipSuddenly the sailor on the mast shouted again：Captain， I can see a man on the iceThe sailor was pointing to a piece of ice that was floating near the ship A man was sitting on the ice， and near him was a broken sledge The ma
7、n was nearly dead from cold and could not walk The sailors carried him carefully onto the ship， and took him to the Captain， who said：Welcome to my shipI am the Captain and my name is Robert WaltonThank you， Captain Walton， the man saidMy name is Frankenstein， Victor FrankensteinThen he fainted and
8、said no moreTwo days passed before the man was strong enough to talk and then the Captain asked him to tell his storyI am trying to catch someone， said FrankensteinThat is why I have come so far north on the iceWe saw you following someone， the Captain saidHe was huge， much bigger than a man We saw
9、his sledge just in front of you on the night before the stormI am pleased you all saw that huge figure， Frankenstein saidPerhaps that will help you to believe my storyDuring the days， while the Captain worked on the ship，Frankenstein wrote down his story， and each evening he read what he had written
10、 to the CaptainHere is Victor Frankensteins story2I was born in Switzerland， in the town of Geneva My parents loved each other very much， and I learnt from the example of their loveI learnt that to love and to be patient are the most important things in the worldMy mother hoped to have a daughter af
11、ter I was born， but for five years I was the only child And then my mother found a sister for meShe was helping a family in which there were five children They were very poor，and the children were thin and hungry One of the children was a little girl， with golden hair and blue eyes Her name was Eliz
12、abeth My mother took the little girl into our family，and Elizabeth became the daughter that my mother had always wanted As I grew older， my love for Elizabeth became stronger all the timeLater my mother had two other sons， Ernest and WilliamA young woman called Justine came to live in the house to h
13、elp my mother with the children We loved her as much as she loved usThe years passed happily， and we had everything that we needed At school I met another very fine person His name was Henry Clerval， and he was very clever My family also liked him very much， so he was a welcome visitor to our houseI
14、 studied very hard at schoolI wanted to know the secrets of life， and， most of all， I wanted to know how to make living thingsI read all the books that I could findOne day，something happened that added a new idea to the ideas that I already hadI was fifteen at the time， and we were on holiday in the
15、 mountains There was a wild storm， and with it came the most frightening thunder and lightning that I had ever seen in my life About twenty metres in front of our house was a great treeSuddenly a huge fork of lightning hit the treeAfter a few seconds， there was nothing left of it except a black piece of wood two metres high The lightning had destroyed itI saw how strong electricity was I began to read all the books that I could find about electricity and its terrible power维克多的故事开始了3For seventeen years my life was very happy Then
