【正文】 es Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry ManagementMay, 2013內(nèi)容摘要 瑪麗作者在序言中提到，寫這篇小說受到達(dá)爾文生物研究的啟發(fā)。怪物既是弗蘭肯斯坦的創(chuàng)造物，又是他的自我的創(chuàng)造物，本文主要分析了怪物在其短暫生命中經(jīng)歷的精神上的進(jìn)化與沉淪，由渴望融入人類社會到轉(zhuǎn)而報復(fù)人類的過程。關(guān)鍵詞《弗蘭肯斯坦》；弗洛姆；精神進(jìn)化 Abstract Mary Shelley is an important novelist in the history of British Romantic literature in the 19th century. Her work, Frankenstein, is one of the famous Gothic novels, and it was considered the first science fiction in the modern sense. There are many interpretations to Frankenstein. Many critics discuss it from the point of scientific danger, and someone from the viewpoint of feminism to research it. This thesis mainly focuses on the process of the monster’s spiritual evolution. As the author mentions in the preface, this story is inspired by Darwin’s biological research. In fact, the romantic era that the author lives in is on the background of the development of evolution. Frankenstein, in fact, is mainly about how the mental of human this organism evolute. In fact, the monster is nameless. Though he has the appearance of human, he doesn’t evolute into a true man. The monster is Frankenstein’s creation and is also the creation of himself. This thesis mainly analyses the monster’s spiritual evolution and destruction, from desiring to integrate into human society to taking revenge on the human. This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part analyses the monster’s spiritual growth process of the monster, by understanding the nature , the human and the human society, the monster advocates the noble virtues of human and desire to integrate into the human society. In the second part analyses the monster’s spiritual destruction. The monster suffers hits without mercy again and again, taking crazy disruptive behavior under extreme despair. Finally he mits suicide because of his inner contradiction struggle and suffering. The last part also emphatically analyzes the main factors that affect his mental changes. The monster’s nature is pure and innocent, but due to the lack of selfidentify, being not recognizing by the society , and the lack of father’s love or affection from others, making the monster’s psychology is imbalance and prompting the monster’s behavior to go to the extreme.Key words: Frankenstein, Fromm, Spiritual evolutionAcknowledgements I would like to acknowledge and extend my heartfelt gratitude to those who help me to finish the thesis. First of all, during the time that I wrote this thesis, I got the help from many people, I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to my supervisor Fan Xiaohang, who helped me plan the thesis, gave me invaluable advice, and encouraged me the early stage of the thesis. Her patient help and timely encouragement are worthy of high acknowledgement. What’s more, she checked my thesis carefully and helped me revise the thesis and I could finish this paper . On the process of posing the paper,she also played an important role in indicating a bright road in my future writing. In addition, And I should also express my sincere gratitude to the other teachers in the Department of Foreign Languages, including Chen Jing, Liu Ruihong and so on. From whom I’ve learned a lot about professional knowledge and research methodology as well. Last but not least, my special thanks should go to my dear friends and classmates. They have given me sincere help and encouragement since the writing of the thesis was under way.ivContentsAbstract ( in Chinese).............................................................................iAbstract ( in English ).............................................................................iiAcknowledgements.................................................................................ivIntroduction.............................................................................................11. The Monster’s Spiritual Growth........................................................31. 1 The Monster’s Understanding of the Nature....................................3 1. 2 The Monster’s Understanding of the Human...................................51. 3The Monster’s Understanding of the Society....................................62. The Monster’s Spiritual Destruction...................................................72. 1 The Change of the Monster’s Mind..................................................72. 2 Seeking Help from the Father...........................................................82. 3 Taking Crazy Disruptive Behavior...................................................92. 4 Desiring for Death―Setting Himself on Fire ................................103. The Reasons for the Changes of Monster’s Spirit..............................103. 1 The Lack of the SelfIdentity..........................................................103. 2 Being Unacceptable........................................................................123. 3 The Lack of Father’s Love.............................................................13Conclusion............................................................................................13Works Cited............................................................................................16Analysis on the Process of the Monster’s Spiritual Evolution in FrankensteinIntroduction Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (17971851)，an outstanding 19thcentury British novelist, is the second wife of Percy Shelley, the famous Romantic poet .She creates 17 works in total during her lifetime . However, her reputation rests on what she once called as her “hideous progeny”, Frankenstein,or The Modern Prometheus (1881), which has transcended the Gothic and horror genres.Since the novel Frankenstein was publish in 1881, its popularity has indeed been prodigious. It is