《弗兰肯斯坦》中怪物地精神演化过程分析报告.docx

1、弗兰肯斯坦中怪物地精神演化过程分析报告 郑州航空工业管理学院毕 业 论 文（设 计） 2013 届 英语 专业 0907062 班级 题 目弗兰肯斯坦中怪物的精神演化过程分析 姓 名 吴延红 学号 090706223 指导教师 范晓航 职称 教授 二一 三 年 五 月 二十六 日Analysis on the Process of the Monsters Spiritual Evolution in FrankensteinBy Wu Yanhong Supervisor: Fan Xiaohang Department of Foreign Languages Zhengzhou Inst

2、itute of Aeronautical Industry ManagementMay, 2013内容摘要 玛丽雪莱是十九世纪英国浪漫主义文学史上重要的作家,她的作品弗兰肯斯坦是著名的哥特小说之一,被认为是世界上第一部真正意义上的科幻小说。对弗兰肯斯坦的解读有很多,不少评论家从科学的危险性这一角度来讨论，也有人从女权主义角度进行研究，本文则着重对怪物的精神演化过程进行分析研究。作者在序言中提到，写这篇小说受到达尔文生物研究的启发。作者所处的浪漫主义时代就是以进化论发展为背景。弗兰肯斯坦这篇小说其实就讲述着人这种生物的精神演化过程。怪物无名无姓，虽具人形，但还没有进化成一个真正的“人”。怪物既

3、是弗兰肯斯坦的创造物，又是他的自我的创造物，本文主要分析了怪物在其短暂生命中经历的精神上的进化与沉沦，由渴望融入人类社会到转而报复人类的过程。本论文文分为三部分，第一部分写怪物的精神成长过程，怪物通过对自然，人类以及社会的理解和认同，崇尚人类社会的高尚美德，渴望融入人类社会，被人类接受，成为其中的一员。第二部分分析了怪物的精神沉沦，怪物一次次遭受无情打击，极度绝望下采取疯狂报复行为，最后因内心矛盾挣扎和痛苦而自杀。第三部分分析了影响他精神变化的因素，怪物本性单纯善良，但由于自我身份的缺失，社会的不认可以及父爱，亲情的缺失，促使怪物走向了极端。关键词弗兰肯斯坦；弗洛姆；精神进化 Abstract

4、 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 disc

5、uss 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 monsters spiritual evolution. As the author mentions in the preface, this story is inspired by Darwins biological research. In fact, the romantic er

6、a 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 doesnt evolute into a true man. The monster is Frankenste

7、ins creation and is also the creation of himself. This thesis mainly analyses the monsters 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 monsters spiritual growth

8、 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 monsters spiritual destruction. The monster suffers hits without mercy again and ag

9、ain, taking crazy disruptive behavior under extreme despair. Finally he commits suicide because of his inner contradiction struggle and suffering. The last part also emphatically analyzes the main factors that affect his mental changes. The monsters nature is pure and innocent, but due to the lack o

10、f self-identify, being not recognizing by the society , and the lack of fathers love or affection from others, making the monsters psychology is imbalance and prompting the monsters behavior to go to the extreme.Key words: Frankenstein, Fromm, Spiritual evolutionAcknowledgements I would like to ackn

11、owledge 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 the

12、sis, gave me invaluable advice, and encouraged me the early stage of the thesis. Her patient help and timely encouragement are worthy of high acknowledgement. Whats more, she checked my thesis carefully and helped me revise the thesis and I could finish this paper . On the process of composing the p

13、aper,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 Ive learned a lot about professiona

14、l 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.ContentsAbstract ( in Chinese).iAbstract ( in English ).iiAcknowledgements.

15、ivIntroduction.11. The Monsters Spiritual Growth.31. 1 The Monsters Understanding of the Nature.3 1. 2 The Monsters Understanding of the Human.51. 3The Monsters Understanding of the Society.62. The Monsters Spiritual Destruction.72. 1 The Change of the Monsters Mind.72. 2 Seeking Help from the Fathe

16、r.82. 3 Taking Crazy Disruptive Behavior.92. 4 Desiring for DeathSetting Himself on Fire .103.The Reasons for the Changes of Monsters Spirit.103. 1 The Lack of the Self-Identity.103. 2 Being Unacceptable.123. 3 The Lack of Fathers Love.13Conclusion.13Works Cited.16Analysis on the Process of the Mons

17、ters Spiritual Evolution in FrankensteinIntroduction Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (1797-1851)，an outstanding 19th-century 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

18、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 considered one of the best Gothic novel as well as the first science fi

19、ction in the modern sense. It has been read by so many people over decades and has been reprinted in so many different English-language editions. Moreover, It has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Urdu, Nalayam and most European languages. The storys popularity is further evidenced by

20、the fact that in the 19th and 20th centuries many melodramas and horror movies were based on the novel.The story of Frankenstein was conceived in “a wet, ungenial summer” of 1861 at Lake Leman Switzerland where Mary and Percy Shelley had settled near Byron and his doctor John Polidori. They spent mu

21、ch time together, talking and reading. One evening after reading Gothic stories, Byron suggested that “they would each write a ghost story”. Mary waited several days in vain for an idea until she was impressed by a discussion between Byron and Shelly about galvanism and the notion of creating life v

22、ia electricity and awoke from a nightmare that night. A couple of days later, based on the dream, Mary began to write the monsters narrative, which forms the books central section.Since its publication, Frankenstein has mostly been acclaimed and studied as a gothic honor novel, or as a science ficti

23、on. Recently, Critics have also begun to approach it from religious, feministic, the psychoanalytic, Freudian reading and so on. In 1979, The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shells Novel which was written by Levin. George collected more than twelve research articles of famous scholars. Thi

24、s thesis will focus on the analysis on the process of the monsters spiritual evolution in Frankenstein. The author mentions in the preface that the writing of this novel is inspired by Darwins biological theory research. In fact, the author lived in the romantic era ,which was on the background of t

25、he development of the theory of evolution. However, in the authors era, the most popular theory was J.B. Lamarcks Romantic theory of evolution, which is in advance of Darwin theory. Lamarck（1744-1829）considered, every creature has internal drive to perfect himself, and every organism is in continuou

26、sly update and in the evolutionary process of self-improvement (Luo Jicai ,2002:131). Whats more, many Romantic ideologist even considered that the spirit of people is also in evolution. Hegel thought that, in fact, in this world the mans self is in a process of evolution. Because the world is yours

27、elf.Later many thinkers have also accepted the theory of the evolution. American psychoanalyst Fromm thought, the human beings cant stand himself a separation. In order to overcome the pain caused by isolation, he may take some evolutionary way to develop their cognition, reason, and the ability of

28、love, so as to surpass themselves and reach a new harmony and unity with the world. This is a kind of spiritual evolution. People may also take the negative and degenerated way, relying on a certain authority, for example, or by degrading to the state that the perception has yet not produced to overcome this sense of isolation.(Fromm,1960) Actually, Frankenstein, this novel is about the spiritual evolution process of the human organism. In fact, the monster is nameless, called “ the Creature” (Shelley,1996) in this book. It suggests that the monster is huma