【正文】 lley about life and literature. Most of their conversations aroused her inspiration for her novels. She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley?s encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, or The Modern Prometheus, published in 1818, which made Mary Shelley known as mother of the science fictions. The Historical Background of Marry Shelly’s Creation Under the influence of 18thcentury Neoclassical Europe, a large number of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, rewritten or classic or translated into national language, to promote the vigorous development of the Enlightenment movement played a pivotal role. Enlightenment in the 18th century was the most influential ideas, under the background of such a creation of Frankenstein which shows her reflection on the scientific and technological civilization and the power of rational skepticism. Humanism led to people instead of God, man became the measure of all things, and further lead to further development of anthropocentrism Eurocentric. More advanced technology, but technology is also more and more like worship of religious worship. Scientists have bee the new god. Mary Shelley39。 【關(guān)鍵詞】 浪漫主義 創(chuàng)作背景 人性 怪物 Abstract Mary Shelley was an important literary figure in the nieenthcentury British Romanticism. In 1818, she published Frankenstein, one of the first science fictions in western literature. Doctor, the hero of the novel, was a life science research scholar. He sought to create artificial life, a terrifying, ugly monster. At first, this manmade monster was kind, full of human kindness and gratitude. But later he killed the brother of the doctor and attempted to murder Frankenstein39。 但是，當(dāng)他處處受到他的創(chuàng)造者 和人們的嫌惡和 歧視 時，他感到非常痛苦 ,他殺害了弗蘭肯斯坦的 弟弟 ，又企圖謀害 他的未婚妻 。雪萊是十八世紀(jì)末，十九世紀(jì)初英國浪漫主義文學(xué)不可忽略的人物。除文中已經(jīng)注明引用的內(nèi)容外，本論文不包含任何其他人或集體已經(jīng)發(fā)表或撰寫過的作品成果。對本文的研究做出重要貢獻(xiàn)的個人和集體，均已在文中以明確方式標(biāo)明。她 在 1818 年發(fā)表了被譽(yù)為西方最早的科幻小說之一的《弗蘭肯斯坦》， 小說 主人公弗蘭肯斯坦是一位從事人的生命科學(xué)研究的 學(xué)者 。弗蘭肯斯坦懷著滿腔怒火追捕他所創(chuàng)造的惡魔般的怪物 ， 最后 和怪物同歸于盡 。s fiancee. With great and agony, Frankenstein chased the monster and finally they died together. The novel has attracted a wide variety of interpretations, ranging from earlier biographical study, to the feminist critics and human nature analysis. The thesis analyzes the Romanticism elements in the novel from the aspects of writer?s life experience, family background and meaning of creation, as well as some Romantic images, especially the monster. Through the analysis, the thesis draws the conclusion that the writer has some deep emotion with Romantic Movement and Frankenstein has close and implied link with Romanticism. Keywords: Romanticism creation background human nature monster I. Introduction Mary Shelley, born August 30, 1797, was a prominent, though often overlooked, literary figure during the Romantic Era of English Literature. She was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist, and William Godwin, a philosopher and novelist. She was also the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was born in 1797 and was a female writer in London. In 1816, she got married with Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was a famous Romantic poet in 19th century. Frankenstein is a novel by Marry Shelley. It tells the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his quest to create intelligent life, with dire consequences. It has had significant impact on the literary world, resulting in many Frankenstein inspired novels. The hero Dr. Frankenstein is engaged in people?s life scientific research and tries hard to use artificial method to create life. In his laboratory, he eventually creates an obnoxious and ugly monster through countless explorations. At the beginning, the artificial monster has kindhearted nature. He is full with goodwill and thanksgiving towards people. He asks his creator and people to give him every life right and even asks for a spouse. However, he feels very disappointed when he is always discriminated by people and his creator. So he hates everything and is eager to ruin everything around the world. He kills Frankenstein?s brother and attempted to murder Frankenstein?s fianc233。s doubt and negation of humanism from its pessimistic view of the world, but also from her caught between two social classes among the living state. Frankenstein that prevailed at that time her three critical thinking: a theology of religious mode, natural mode and humanist mode. Three models are critical of this attitude, expressed their own positions. Mary Shelley also criticized romanticism and individualism at the time, and a series of novels by the plot expressed their criticism of father and husband. Frankenstein is a very good novel of new ideas and exciting plots. Almost every character in Frankenstein shows his interest in developing his own situation and does something for human betterment. The “thing” Frankenstein has created and abandoned later takes its revenge against its creator. In order to catch this vicious monster and kill it for human betterment, Frankenstein pursues the monster to the Arctic and dies there. The monster makes a decision to destroy itself, too. Many people show their interest in this novel not only because it is one of the earliest written science fictions in the English literature but also because it had eccentric and unconstrained plots. It also had very plex and plicated description about human nature and this thesis seeks to analyze Mary Shelley?s views on human nature and finds the significant meaning for today?s human and science development. Literary Background in Writer’s Times The Impact of The Story of Prometheus The subtitle of Frankenstein is The Modern Prometheus suggesting a strong link with the ancient Promethean myths. Mary Shelley subtitled her novel The Moder