【正文】 h anger to hound the monster. At last, he and the monster both end in death in the battle. This novel shows the author?s attitude towards life. She thinks people have double characters–goodness and badness. People are going to do wrong things if they are discriminated and persecuted by other people for a long time. What?s worse, they may destroy the whole world. Is a creation of the Gothic tradition of literary sentimentalism. Gothic novels popular in the 18th century, belongs to Romanticism, more content for the terror, violence, fantasy, and longing for life in the Middle Ages, because of its dark and desolate plot occurred in the Gothic castle (18th century England, a popular architectural forms, similar to the church) in its name, story full of suspense to end in destruction。 Frankenstein himself became seriously ill and the materials for his creation came from the graves, charnel houses, the dissecting room and slaughterhouse. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the only daughter of two literary celebrities. Her father William Godwin (1756 1836) was an evolutionary philosopher and novelist. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 1797), the author of the Rights of Woman, was in the vanguard of feminism. Unfortunately, Mary Wollstonecraft died giving birth to Mary, leaving her daughter in the care of his husband. Mary spent her childhood in a very miserable situation. She could not expect any love from her stepmother. Shelley helped her not only in her life but also in her literary success. She always has conversations with Shelley 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。 however, both of them were punished seriously. Prometheus was punished because of fire while Frankenstein suffered from his own actions because of knowledge. Prometheus was chained to a rock, where an eagle plucked at his liver each day. The next day, his liver would grow back again and the eagle ate it again. He had to endure this tragic experience day after day. Frankenstein also endured some miserable things, such as lost of his family and friend. However, Prometheus endured the corporal punishment while Frankenstein suffered the spiritual sufferings. He was disturbed by a state of utmost confusion and terror. Frankenstein begins to build on his scientific knowledge and when he goes to Ingolstadt and finds a mentor in Waldman, he also starts to take his study of chemistry seriously. There, he bees part of the new science that perates “into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding places”. However, ideas are simply not enough to cause a young and intelligent man like Frankenstein to try to take on the role of the ultimate Creator and bring life to a corpse. Shelly shows us that the external or the society at large will always intermingle with the internal or the emotional and psychological makeup of the person. It is Frankenstein?s own “chimerical” makeup a confidence in the male scientific ability, a belief in the male prerogative to control nature by the accumulation of knowledge, the absence of a tempering maternal influence and his own hubris, that leads him to “circumvent the natural channels of procreation”. His knowledge of the world is ironically one that is created in piecemeal. Hence the creature can be seen as a physical representation of the terrible patching up of mismatched parts to make a whole. In trying to be more than he is, that is, a human being, Frankenstein finds himself wedged in between nature and God, being estranged from his immediate society as he bees burdened with the tragedies brought about by the creature. As is implied by the subtitle The Modern Prometheus the story of Doctor Frankenstein is strongly influence by the Hellenistic Promethean myths. The primary ancient sources for the legends of Prometheus are Theogony by Hesiod and the Metamorphoses by Ovid, as well as Aeschylus?s Prometheus Unbound. Here will be found an analysis of the influence of these on Shelley?s novel. While the creation of life by Prometheus is only seen in Metamorphoses the act of stealing knowledge which should only be known to divine beings, for the use of man, is a feature in all the Promethean creation myths. In all the versions of this legend Prometheus challenges the supremacy of nature and the knowledge of the gods. When Doctor Frankenstein seeks the knowledge of life and death he perpetrates a crime against the gods and nature in much the same way as Prometheus did when he stole the secret of fire。 as he states ?It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn? Frankenstein claims that ?Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dar