Sim! Frankenstein é um romance de terror gótico com inspirações do movimento romântico, de autoria de Mary Shelley, escritora britânica nascida em Londres.
O romance relata a história de Victor Frankenstein, um estudante de ciências naturais que constrói um monstro em seu laboratório. Mary Shelley escreveu a história quando tinha apenas 19 anos, entre 1816 e 1817, e a obra foi primeiramente publicada em 1818, sem crédito para a autora na primeira edição. Atualmente costuma-se considerar a versão revisada da terceira edição do livro, publicada em 1831, como a definitiva.
Embora a cultura popular tenha associado o nome Frankenstein à criatura, esta não é nomeada por Mary Shelley. Ela é referida como “criatura”, “monstro”, “demônio”, “desgraçado” por seu criador, esse sim chamado Frankenstein. Após o lançamento do filme Frankenstein em 1933 o público passou a chamar assim a criatura. Isso foi adotado mais tarde em outros filmes. Alguns argumentam que o monstro é, de certa forma, um “filho” de Victor, e portanto pode ser chamado pelo mesmo sobrenome.
Frankenstein é o antigo nome de uma antiga cidade na Silésia, local de origem da família Frankenstein. Mary Shelley teria conhecido um membro desta família, o que possivelmente influenciou sua criação.
Frankenstein é o antigo nome de uma antiga cidade na Silésia, local de origem da família Frankenstein. Mary Shelley teria conhecido um membro desta família, o que possivelmente influenciou sua criação.
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Letter 1
TO Mrs. Saville, England
St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.(...)"
TO Mrs. Saville, England
St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.(...)"
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