frankenstein 《科 学怪人》 is one of the earliest books of science fiction
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Frankenstein 《科学怪人》 is one of the earliest books of science fiction.
“The mother of science fiction novels”
(1797-1851)
She wrote the book when only 18 years old!
Wife of the famous poet
---Shelley
What did Dr Frankenstein create at last?
He had planned to create a largerhuman being but at last it turned out a living horror.
How many periods can Dr Frankenstein’s experiment be divided?
Three periods: Para. 1-3
He decided to create life from dead matter.
Para.4-5
He decided to create a larger human being than man.
Period 1: ________
Period 2: _______
Period 3: _______Para.6-7
He succeeded in creating a creature, but a living horror.
1.What did Dr Frankenstein want to do when he was young?
To learn the secrets of heaven and earth
2.When at university,what did he think of the things taught?
He felt them very disappointing and decided to pioneer a new way himself.
What attracted his attention?
The structure of the human body and any animal alive.
What did he discover?
The cause of life and how to create life from dead matter.
Period 1:
3.
Period 2:
1.Although he knew how to create life,what remained difficult work for him?
How to prepare a body for it with all its muscles and organs still remained a difficult job for him.
2.Why did he decide to create a larger human being than man about eight feet in height?
Because the small size of the parts slowed down his speed.
1.How did he create a life form that looks like a human being?
Please rearrange the following steps in the right order.1. He gained materials from butcher shops and hospitals.
2. He finished his work on a night in November.
3. The dead creature came to life at one in the morning.
4. He lighted the flame of life into the dead thing.
5. He collected bones from graves and cut up dead bodies.
5 1 2 4 3
Period 3:
What did the creature look like?
What did Dr Frankenstein think of the creature?
2He got black hair, white teeth, yellow skin, black lips and strange sounds. He looked like a terrible monster.
While unfinished, he was ugly but now he was a living horror.
1. What’s the end of the story?2. What happened to Dr
Frankenstein?
Frankenstein:a person who destroys himself by creating sth.
作法自毙的人，自作自受者
any creation that ultimately destroys its creator
人形怪物，危及起创造者的事物
1. No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself.
（比较级的否定表示最高级）Nothing is more precious than time.Nothing is happier than staying with one’s parents and having nothing to worry about.no/nothing… so… as… 也表示最高级意义，相当于“没有…像…那样…”No book is so interesting as this one.Nothing in my life shocked me so deeply as this first visit to China.
2. I was driven by a desire to learn.
drive sb. + to do / adj.
Hunger drove him to steal. = He was driven by hunger to steal.
The loud noise almost drove me
crazy.
3. My father was not scientific, so I had to look for a road without having a map.
(Dr Frankenstein used a metaphor in the so-clause. He compared the road without any instructions to that without having a map in order to show he had to work hard to find a way to science by himself.)
4. I read all the books I could find that threw light upon these matters.
( “throw light upon” means “make…clear”. Here is another metaphor. He compared books to lights.) “阐明某事，使某事显得非常清楚”
The modern scientific development has thrown light on this question.
现代科学的发展已使这个问题明朗化。
5. I would pioneer a new way. v. 开辟，开创，最初倡导
She pioneered short haircut for women in the 1920’s. Heart-transplant surgery was pioneered
by Professor Christian Barnard.
n. 先驱者，创始人Young pioneers
They are the pioneers in the development of our oilfield.
6. I discovered the cause of life and…
The ________ why he didn’t go to school is his illness.The heavy rain was the ________ of the flood.Too much work is no _________ for not studying English.
reason
causeexcuse
cause: 造成某一事实或现象的直接原因 , 常与 of 连用 .
reason: 给某种现象或结果合乎逻辑的解释 , 而不是简单说明起因 , 常与 for 连用 .
excuse: 为免受指责和推卸责任而找的 “理由 , 借口” .
7. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.
就是在这样的情绪的驱动下，我开始了对于 人类生命的创造。
It was on a night in November that I looked at the result of my book.
就在十一月的一个夜晚，我看到了我的杰作。
8. I collected my instruments around me, with which I would light the flame of life in the dead thing that lay at my feet.
9. He opened the curtain of the bed, and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, looked at me
if they may be called eyes
10. One of the phenomena that attracted my attention was the structure of the human body, and any animal that was alive.
While unfinished, he was ugly, but now he was a living horror.
alive 修饰“人，物” , 后置定语，表语living 表语，前置定语live “ 活的，有生命的；现场直播的，实况转播的” 修饰物，前置定语lively “ 活泼的，生动逼真的” , 前置定语，表语He was the happiest _____ man.He was the happiest man ________.The spy was caught _______.It wasn’t a recorded show, but it was ____.He usually has his own ways of making
his classes _______ and interesting.A cat caught a ______ fish.
alivealive
live
livelylive
living
Useful Phrases
1. 被一种愿望所驱使
2. 阐明某事， 使某事显得非常清楚
3. 开拓一种新方法
4. 向……展示……
5. 切碎，剪碎
6. 点亮 / 注入生命之光
7. 燃尽，烧光
8. 一个活生生的令人恐怖的怪物
be driven by a desire
throw light upon/on
pioneer a new way
unfold…to…
cut up
light the flame of life
be burnt out
a living horror
fur
feathers
butcher
hospital
cellsarms
grow
test tube
Material
Body
Human
Robot
Machines
Animals
education
activate
medicine
superman
mini-computer
language
codestore
organ