"Франкенштейн" - наиболее известный готический роман, в котором Шелли сталкивается с ограничениями науки, природой человеческой жестокости и путями прощения. "Дождь стучал по стеклам, и моя свеча была почти погашена, когда, при свете едва горящего света, я увидел, как открылось тусклое желтое глазище создания..." Монстр, созданный Виктором Франкенштейном из кусков мертвых тел, взятых из "амфитеатра и убойни". Результатом стало чудовищное существо, которое, отвергнутое своим создателем и лишенное человеческого общения, отправляется в путешествие, чтобы отомстить. В этом наиболее известном готическом ужастике Шелли сталкивается с ограничениями науки, природой человеческой жестокости и путями прощения. Начатый, когда Мэри Шелли была всего восемнадцати лет, и опубликованный через два года, этот душераздирающий рассказ о желании молодого ученого создать жизнь - и последствиях этого создания - до сих пор звучит сегодня.
This is the most famous Gothic horror story in existence. It was written by Mary Shelley when she was just eighteen years of age and was published after she was only twenty. As described, Victor Frankenstein is a young virologist who embarks on his career, determined to create a new life. His aim to establish an artificial life resonates through his experimental procedure where he mixes body parts of several deceased people. The resultant life teems eventually with a terrible and horrible terrifying creature who goes on a mission to destroy the creator who has made him/her what it is today in order to survive. But after coming across extremely harsh climate and suffering, the antagonist understands his mistake and the true redemption of forgiveness and humanity becomes his relentless pursuit. This gripping tale is more than just a beautiful story that appeal to human emotions. "Frankenstein" analyzes the boundaries of scientific knowledge and human potentialities by putting up a scholarly voice. Even centuries later, it sounds deeply relevant to our world as we question human practices including the instantaneous advancements and abrupt skips in responsibility.
Электронная Книга «Frankenstein» написана автором Мэри Шелли в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007382613
Описание книги от Мэри Шелли
In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness.‘The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…’Victor Frankenstein’s monster is stitched together from the limbs of the dead, taken from ‘the dissecting room and the slaughter-house’. The result is a grotesque being who, rejected by his maker and starved of human companionship, sets out on a journey to seek his revenge. In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness.Begun when Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old and published two years later, this chilling tale of a young scientist’s desire to create life – and the consequences of that creation – still resonate today.
