弗兰肯斯坦英文版

1、弗兰肯斯坦英文版.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而临的问题。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一一然而 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

2、们声称这些东西 对我们有益一一但我们能够驾驭它们吗？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珀西比希雪莱。11 ! Look over there. Something is moving on the ice ! 'CaptainThe sailor stood at the top of the mast, high above theCaptain- His hand pointed away from the ship, across the miles of ice that covered the sea.The Captai

3、n looked to the north, where the sailor waspointing. He saw something coming fast towards the ship across theice. He put his telescope to his eye, and through it he could see theshapes of ten dogs pulling a sledge over the ice. He could also see thedriver of the sledgea huge figure, much bigger than

4、 a man.The sledge came nearer and nearer to the sea. Soon it was only a quarter of a mile from the ship. No one needed a telescope now to see the huge figure of the driver.Suddenly the sledge went behind a mountain of ice and disappeared. At that moment another sledge appeared. It, too, was moving f

5、ast, and was clearly chasing the first sledge. This driver was a smaller figure, more like an ordinary man. Faster and faster the dogs ran； then the second sledge also disappeared behind the mountain of ice-Two hours passed. The sledges did not appear again. Nothingmoved on the ice. Soon night cam，

6、and in the night there was astorm. In the morning, the sailors saw that great pieces of ice wereSuddenly the sailor on the mast shouted floating round the ship again：'Captain, I can see a man on the ice-'The sailor was pointing to a piece of ice that was floating near the ship. A man was sit

7、ting on the ice, and near him was a brokensledge. The man was nearly dead from cold and could not walk- The sailors carried him carefully onto the ship, and took himto the Captain, who said：'Welcome to my ship- I am the Captain and my name is Robert Walton. 1'Thank you. Captain Walton, 1 the

8、 man said. My name is Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein- 1Then he fainted and said no more.Two days passed before the man was strong enough to talk and then the Captain asked him to tell his story.工 am trying to catch someonet 1 said Frankenstein- "That is why I have come so far north on the ic

9、e. 14We saw you following someone1 1 the Captain said. 4He washuge, much bigger than a man. We saw his sledge just in front of you on the night before the storm. 1工 am pleased you all saw that huge figure, 1Frankenstein4 Perhaps that will help you to believe my story, saidDuring the days, while the

10、Captain worked on the ship, Frankenstein wrote down his story, and each evening he read what he had written to theCaptain.Here is Victor Frankenstein1s story.2I was born in Switzerland in the town of Geneva. My parents loved each other very much, and I learnt from the example of theirlove. I learnt

11、that to love and to be patient are the most important things in the world.My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born, but forfive years I was the only child. And then my mother found a sisterfor me. She was helping a family in which there were fivechildren. They were very poor, and the chil

12、dren were thin and hungry- One of the children was a little girl, withgolden hair andblue eyes Her name was Elizabeth- My mother took the little girland Elizabeth became the daughter that my mother,into our familyhad always wanted- As I grew oldermy love for Elizabeth becamestronger all the time-Lat

13、er my mother had two other sons, Ernest andWilliam- Ayoung woman called Justine came to live in the house to help mymother with the children- We loved her as much as she loved us-The years passed happily, and we had everything that weneeded. At school I met another very fine person. His name wasHenr

14、y Clerval, and he was very clever. My family also liked him very much, so he was a welcome visitor to our house.I studied very hard at school- I wanted to know the secrets oflife, and, most of all, I wanted to know how to make livingthings. I read all the books that I could find- One day, some-thing

15、happened that added a new idea to the ideas that I al-ready had- Iwas fifteen at the time, and we were on holiday in themountains. There was a wild storm, and with it came the mostfrightening thunder and lightning that I had ever seen in mylife- About twenty metres in front of our house was a greatt

16、ree. Suddenly a huge fork of lightning hit the tree. After a fewseconds, there was nothing left of it except a black piece of wood two metres high. The lightning had destroyed it-I began to read all the books I saw how strong electricity wasthat I could find about electricity and its terrible power.

17、维克多的故事开始了3For seventeen years my life was very happy. Then the first sadthing happened. My mother became very ill, and soon she knew thatshe was dying. Just before she died, she asked Elizabeth and me togo to her room. She held our hands and said：4My children I am very happy because you love each ot

18、her, and because one day you will get married. Everyone in the family loves you, Elizabeth. Will you take my place in the family, my dear? I can die happy if you will look after them when I have gone. !My mother died, and we were very sad, because we loved herdearly Elizabeth was brave and helped us

19、； her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 1 s deathThe time came for me to go to university. I did not want to leavemy sad family, but we all knew that I should go- It was hard toleave, too, because the parents of my good friend Henry Clerval would not let him go t

20、o university with me. And soI had to goalone.On my first day at the university I met my teacher, ProfessorWaldman, who was one of the greatest scientists in the world. He gave a wonderful talk to all the students who were starting at theuniversity- He ended his talk by saying： Some of you will becom

21、ethe great scientists of tomorrow. You must study hard and discovereverything that you can. That is why God made you intelligentto help other people. 1After the professorf s talk, I thought very carefully- Iremembered the storm when I was fifteen- I remembered how thelightning had destroyed the tree

22、. I wanted to use electricity to help people, and I wanted to discover the secrets of life- I decided to workon these two things. I did not know then that my work woulddestroy me and the people that I loved.I started work the next day. I worked very hard and soonProfessor Waldman and I realized that

23、 I could learn to be a very good scientistThe professor helped me very much, and other importantscientists who were his friends helped me, too- I was interested inmy work and I did not take one day1 s holiday during the next twoyears. I did not go home, and my letters to my family were very short.Af

24、ter two years I had discovered many things and I built ascientific machine that was better than anything in theuniversity- My machine would help me answer the most important question of all- How does life begin? Is it possible to put life intodead things? To answer these questions about life I had t

25、o learnfirst about death- I had to watch bodies from the moment when theydied and the warm life left them. In the hospital and in theuniversity, I watched the dying and the dead. Day after day, monthafter month, I followed death. It was a dark and terrible time.Then one day, the answer came to me. S

26、uddenly I was surethat I knew the secret of life. I knew that I could put life into a body that was not alive.I worked harder and harder now. I slept for only a short timeeach night, and I did not eat much food. I wrote to my family lessoften. But they loved me and did not stop writing to me. They s

27、aid they understood how busy I was. They did not want me to stop workThey would wait until I had more to write or to see themtime. They hoped to see me very soon.The professors realized that I was doing very important work, and so they gave me my own laboratory. There was a small flatabove the labor

28、atoryt where I lived, and sometimes I stayed insidethe building for a week and did not go out.Above the laboratory I built a very tall mast. It was 150metreshigh, and higher than the tallest building in the city- The mast couldcatch lightning and could send the electricity down to my machine inthe l

29、aboratory. I had never forgotten the lightning that haddestroyed the tree- There had been so much power in the electricityof that lightning- I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead.I will say no more than that. The secret of my machine must diewith me- I was a v

30、ery clever scientists but I did not realize then what a terrible mistake I was making.In my laboratory I made a body. I bought or stole all the piecesof human body that I needed, and slowly and carefully, I put them all togetherI did not let anybody enter my laboratory or my flat while I wasdoing th

31、is awful work. I was afraid to tell anybody my terrible secret.I had wanted to make a beautiful man, but the face of thecreature was horrible. Its skin was thin and yellow, and its eyeswere as yellow as its skin. Its long black hair and white teeth werealmost beautiful, but the rest of the face was

32、very ugly.Its legs and arms were the right shapes but they were huge. I had to use big pieces because it was too difficult to join small piecestogether. My creature was two and a half metres tall-For a year I had worked to make this creature, but now itlooked terrible and frightening. I almost decid

33、ed to destroy it. But Icould not- I had to know if I could put life into it.I joined the body to the wires from my machine- More wiresjoined the machine to the mast. I was sure that my machine coulduse electricity from lightning to give life to thebody- I watched andwaited. Two days later I saw dark

34、 clouds in the sky, and I knew thata storm was coming. At about one o 1 clock in the morning thelightning came. My mast began to do its work immediately and the electricity from the lightning travelled down the mast to my? Would the machine work machineAt first nothing happened- But after a few minu

35、tes I saw thecreature 1 s body begin to move. Slowly, terribly, the body camealive. His arms and legs began to move, and slowly he sat up.The dead body had been an ugly thing, but alive, he was muchmore horrible- Suddenly I wanted to escape from him- I ran out ofthe laboratory, and locked the door.

36、I was filled with fear at whatI had done.For hours I walked up and down in my flat. At lastI lay downon my bed, and fell asleep- But my sleep was full of terribledreams> and I woke up suddenly. The horrible thing that I hadcreated was standing by my bed. His yellow eyes were looking atme； his mou

37、th opened and he made strange sounds at me. On hisyellow face there was an awful smile. One of his huge hands reached towards mBefore he could touch me, I jumped off the bed and randownstairs into the garden. I stayed there all night, but I could notthink clearly. I was afraid. And when morning came

38、, I went outinto the town and began to walk about.I did not notice where I was walking but soon I came to thestation. A train from Geneva had just arrived, and the passengersOne of them ran towards me when he saw were leaving the stationme. It was my dear friend Henry Clerval.He was very pleased to

39、see me. He took my hand and shook it warmly.'My dear Victor! 1 he said. "What a lucky chance that you arehere at the station- Your father, and Elizabeth and the others, arevery worried about you, because you have not visited them for along time. They ask me to make sure that you are well. A

40、nd I havevery good news. My father has agreed to let me study at theuniversity, so we shall be able to spend a lot of time together. 1I was very happy to hear this news, and for a moment I for-gotmy fears. I took Henry back to my flat and asked him to wait outsidewhile I went in to look. I was afrai

41、d that the creature was stillthere. But he had disappeared. At that time I did not think of otherpeople, and what the creature could do to them- I took Henry intothe flat and cooked a meal for us. But Henry noticed how thin I was, and that I was laughing too much and could not sit still-Suddenly he

42、said： 'My dear Victor, what is the matter withyou? Are you ill? Has something awful happened? 14Don 11 ask me that, 1 I cried- I put my hands over my eyes. Ithought I could see the horrible creature there in front of me. ISave He can tell you： and shouted , pointed wildly across the roomme ! Sav

43、e me 1 ' I tried to fight the creaturet but there was nothing there. Then I fainted and fell to the floor-Poor Henry! I do not know what he thought. He called a doctor and they put me to bed. I was very ill for two months, andHenry stayed and looked after me. His loving care saved me fromdeath.I

44、 wanted to go home and see my family as soon as possible. When I was well enough, I packed my clothes and books- Allmy luggage was ready and I was feeling very happy when thepostman arrived with some letters. One of the letters ended my short time of happiness-5The letter was from my father in Genev

45、a, and this is what hewrote：My dear Victor,I want you to know before you arrive home that anawful thingHe is dead, William, Your dear youngest brother, has happenedwas murdered. It happened last Thursday evening when Elizabethand I and your two brothers Ernest and William, went for a walkoutside the

46、 city. William and Ernest were playing. William hadhidden from Ernest, and Ernest asked Elizabeth and me to help findWilliam- We all began to search for him, but we couldn't findhim. We searched all night. At five in the morning I foundhim. He was lying on the grass, white and still. I could see

47、 themarks of fingers on his neckthe murderer had strangled him.Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round hisneck- On the chain was a very small picture of your mother. We allthink that someone murdered William to steal the gold chain. PoorElizabeth is terribly unhappy at William1 s death

48、. She thinks he diedbecause she let him wear the chain. Hurry home, my dearVictor. You are the only one who can help Elizabeth, and we all need you.With all our love,Your FatherHenry helped me to catch the train- The journey seemed verylong, and it was late at night before the train reached Geneva.

49、Idecided to spend the night in a village outside the town and go homeI wanted to see the place where William had early in the morning died.As I started my walk, a storm broke and lightning lit thesky. The police had put posts round the place where the murderer had strangled William, so I found it ea

50、sily. I cried sadly as I stood there. My poor brother had been a kind and happy boy, and wehad all loved him-Again the lightning lit the sky, and I saw a huge figure standingin the rain. When I saw it, I knew at once what it was. It was thecreature that I had made.What was he doing there? But althou

51、gh I asked myself thequestion, I knew the answer. He had murdered my brother. I was sure that I was right.I decided to try and catch him- But as I moved, he ran to-wards the mountains. He ran much faster than any man- He climbed the mountain easily> reached the top, and disappeared.I stood there

52、in the dark and the rain, and knew that I had created a monster. And he had murdered my brother-At first I decided to tell the police my story. Butwould theybelieve me? I had been very ill. When the police learnt about my illness they would think the monster was just one of my bad dreams. I decided

53、that I could not tell anybody.I went home to my family and they were very pleased to seeme. Then they told me that the police had found the murderer. Perhaps you will think that this was good news, but I have not told you who the police had arrested.As I went into the houses I noticed that one perso

54、n did not cometo meet me- It was Justine, the young woman who looked after theAnd it was Justine that the children and who was like a sister to us police had arrested.A few days after the murder, the police had searched the houseand had found the gold chain in Justine1s coat pocket- Everyone in the

55、family knew that Justine had not murderedWilliam. I knewwho the murderer was, but I could not tell anyone- We were surethat Justine would be free after the trial, because nobody couldbelieve that she was a murderer. But we were wrong-The trial did not go well for Justine- There were a number of stra

56、nge facts that were difficult to explain, and the judge decidedthat she was the murderer. The punishment for murder wasdeath. We argued and cried. We said she could not murderanyone- But nothing could change the judge 1 s order.So I got up early and went to the judge 1 s house and told himabout the

57、monster. He did not believe me. He thought I was lyingin order to save Justine1s life.In the prison Justine waited quietly for death. We spent many hours with her, and she spoke calmly and kindly to us. She was happy because we believed that she had not killed William- And shewas almost looking forward to death, be -cause then she would be with William and our dear mother in a place of peace-I knew Her love and gentleness added to my great unhappiness she was going to die because of me. I knew my brother had diedbecause of me. I had brought nothing but sadness and misery to m