【正文】 rather than by an outside agent, as was the case with Prometheus. The creation is aware that his creator “detest and spurns” him and attests that this denial of human panionship and respect is part of the reason that he has bee the monster that he now is. The Impact of Human’s Oedipus Complex In the novel, Frankenstein was very proud of his knowledge of science. He determined to create a perfect human being that could fulfill his dream. Frankenstein tried his every effort to create a living human being. However, he did not realize what he had done until the “ thing” he had created took its first breath. Frankenstein found that the “ thing” was not a living human being but a monster. Badly frightened and disgusted by the ugly gigantic monster, Frankenstein abandoned it and thought it would die in the forest. However, the monster survived the bleak forest and came back to revenge on his creator. This plot was similar to that of Oedipus the King. “ An oracle said that the child Oedipus would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother.” Frankenstein and Oedipus? father did the same thing avoiding taking responsibility led to their tragic destiny. Mary showed her dissatisfaction on this in her novel. She believed that the one who avoid taking the responsibility would finally be punished. Mary Shelley had the monster in Frankenstein educated in the forest so that he could have the knowledge to take his revenge. Instinctively, the monster grasped the necessary skills for his survival. Later, he learned knowledge secretly from an exiled family. Not only had he learned the basic knowledge of language but also understood the rules and regulations of human society, especially when the cottagers sent him three books as present for his secret help to them. These three books consisted of Paradise Lost, the volume of Plutarch’s Lives, and The Sorrows of Werter. In The Sorrows of Werter, the monster found a “neverending source of speculation and astonishment”. He wondered on Werter?s deeds wept on his extinction without precisely understanding it. The volume of Plutarch’s Lives gave him far different effect from The Sorrows of Werter. These two books gave him the very basic idea of what the human society was like. The more he had read and known, the more he thought about himself pletely. He wondered what he was, where he came from, and why he was excluded from the human race, etc. This feeling became stronger when he finished Paradise Lost. “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me Man。 Frankenstein was not satisfied that there were secrets that could not be learned by man. ?Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?? he poses. Frankenstein was determined to make this knowledge of life his, and so he challenged the power of heaven with his science。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 Modern Prometheus, appears in Greek myth as a divine being, one of the Titans, descended from the original union of the Sky God with the Earth Mother. In some stories, he is the creator of mankind, and he is always their champion. He is supposed to have stolen fire for them from Heaven when they were denied it by Zeus, and to have been punished by being fastened to a cliff in the Caucasus where an eagle tore daily at his liver. Frankenstein shared many similarities with Prometheus. In Frankenstein, the scientist played the role of the modern Prometheus. He was the creator of a human being. Although he abandoned his creation, he could not avoid taking the responsibility of it that was his intellectual invention. Once the crazy scientist gained it, his fall began and he would be excluded from the paradise of life. Both Frankenstein and Prometheus had done something for human betterment。 there are many similar wellknown works. Sentimentalism refers to the industrial revolution, before the French Revolution as a literary genre, the main features of a writer instead of reason to emotion and love as a critical tool, mainly praise kindness, passion, selflessness, and ecstasy is natural, but the shape of the figure Some pedantic and naive. Epistolary was a more popular literary technique. On the subject, the Gothic novels reflect the industrial revolution and the antipathy of sc