About the author:
Mary Shelley is a English novelist. She born in 1797 at London. She is the popular poet, Shelley's wife. She was clever and love to learning since her youth. Before 17 years old, she elope with the married Shelley. She wrote 8 novel in her life, the "Frankenstein" at 1818's is the greatest. This novel has opened the gate of the Science fiction novel.
Story Overview:
Captain Robert Walton was sailing on the Artic, the fog there cause his sailor and him to see nothing. When the fog began to lift, one of his man spotted a man who looked terribly ill was on a floating ice. They rescued the man. At first, the man was looked like a madman. Two days later, the man began to speak and he told Walton about his things.
He is Victor Frankenstein, the maker of the monster. He liked to explore the way things worked. He wanted to know the secrets of nature. He went to a university to learn the things which he liked. At the university, he met Professor Waldman, his favorite teacher and good friend. Victor studied and discovered many things with the help of his teacher. Later, he wanted to know the way to let someone death back into life. He soon done the research of this and finally create the "monster".
At first, his creation was not a monster. But its body was very big and his face was very ugly. Victor was scared by it and ran away. The monster's heart was hurt seriously and it really a monster now. It hurt all the people who Victor loved, his brother and his wife, Elizabeth was killed by the monster. Victor swear he will kill the monster by his own hand. He followed the monster to the Artic, but it was too fast and Victor soon lose the sign of it.
Victor was seriously ill and he fainted. When he saw Walton's ship, he made himself row toward the ship and Walton was saved him. After he told all his story to Walton, he knew he will be died soon. So he wanted Walton to help him kill the monster and Walton promised he would. After Victor died, the monster was appear at the ship, it felt very sad to its father death. When Walton wants to kill it, it ran away and disappear from there and nobody had seen it after.
My Comment:
Every living things needs love, no matter his look ugly or not. If you create a thing and give it a life, you must be the first one to love it, and teach it everything. Be a good father is important. If not, it may be a monster and do many things you could never taught it.
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