弗兰肯斯坦英语读后感

Mary Shelley, one of the most famous female writers in the science fiction, wrote her famous science fiction Frankenstein in 1818. She leaded the romantic period. As her master work, Frankenstein is always regarded as the pioneer of the science fiction.

Mary Shelley mainly told readers a story that Victor Frankenstein wanted to create a good people to help the human, but in fact, he created a monster who is ugly, so that Victor put him away. Because of the prejudice, the monster became a bad man and killed some people in order to revenge Victor. At the end of the novel, the monster regret what he has down, he chose to kill himself. It is a bad ending novel.

This paper will analysis the reasons which causes the bad ending. This paper pays more attention on the humanity that causes the bad ending.

The first reason that causes the tragedy is the desire of Victor Frankenstein. From the fiction, the readers can see that although Victor wanted to make a perfect man that can benefit the human. In the fact, he only wanted to make a successful invention to make himself be famous all over the world. The result was not as good as he thought, he created a monster, so Victor abandoned the monster. When he faced his invention, he

scared what he had done. What he made may destroy his career. At that time, the monster was just like a baby, he did not know anything. Victor did not teach him but put him away. From the explantation, the paper analyses Victor’s desire is the ambition of being success and famous. So the Victor’s desire is the first reason that contributes to the bad ending.

The second reason that causes the tragedy is the people who was saved or helped by the monster. From the novel, the readers can see that at first, the monster was a good man. He helped the old man who was lonely; he saved the little girl who was drowning. However, the monster did not receive any gratitude, but the beat because of his appearance. Then the monster thought that no one would regard him as a good man, so he decided to revenge the Victor. From this reasons, he turned himself a good man to a bad man. So, the people’s attitude is the second reason that causes the bad ending.

The third reason that causes the tragedy is the loneliness. From the novel, we can see, even everyone in the world regarded him as a monster; he promised to the Victor that if Victor could create a peer for him, he would not hurt anyone. Victor refused his suggestion, and then the monster thinks that he was the only man who was so strange and ugly, he was very lonely. Then, he