Frankenstein

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FRANKENSTEIN Narra la historia de Víctor Frankenstein, un joven suizo, estudiante de medicina en Ingolstadt,
obsesionado por conocer "los secretos del cielo y la tierra". En su afán por desentrañar "la misteriosa alma
del hombre", Víctor crea un cuerpo a partir de la unión de distintas partes de cadáveres diseccionados. El
experimento concluye con éxito cuando Frankenstein le da vida al monstruoso cuerpo. Víctor Frankenstein,
que comprende en ese momento el horror que ha creado, rechaza con espanto el resultado de su experimento
y huye de su laboratorio. Al volver a él, el monstruo ha desaparecido y él cree que todo ha concluido. Pero la
sombra de su pecado le persigue: el monstruo tras huir del laboratorio, siente el rechazo de la humanidad y
despiertan en él el odio y la sed de venganza. FRANKENSTEIN Narra la historia de Víctor Frankenstein, un
joven suizo, estudiante de medicina en Ingolstadt, obsesionado por conocer "los secretos del cielo y la tierra".
En su afán por desentrañar "la misteriosa alma del hombre", Víctor crea un cuerpo a partir de la unión de
distintas partes de cadáveres diseccionados. El experimento concluye con éxito cuando Frankenstein le da
vida al monstruoso cuerpo. Víctor Frankenstein, que comprende en ese momento el horror que ha creado,
rechaza con espanto el resultado de su experimento y huye de su laboratorio. Al volver a él, el monstruo ha
desaparecido y él cree que todo ha concluido. Pero la sombra de su pecado le persigue: el monstruo tras huir
del laboratorio, siente el rechazo de la humanidad y despiertan en él el odio y la sed de venganza.

About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in England on August 30, 1797. Her parents were two celebrated liberal thinkers, William Godwin, a social philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a women's rights advocate. Eleven days after Mary's birth, her mother died of puerperal fever. Four motherless years later, Godwin married Mary Jane Clairmont, bringing her and her two children into the same household with Mary and her half-sister, Fanny. Mary's idolization of her father, his detached and rational treatment of their bond, and her step-mother's preference for her own children created a tense and awkward home. Mary's education and free-thinking were encouraged, so it should not surprise us today that at the age of sixteen she ran off with the brilliant, nineteen-year old and unhappily married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley became her ideal, but their life together was a difficult one. Traumas plagued them: Shelley's wife and Mary's half-sister both committed suicide; Mary and Shelley wed shortly after he was widowed but social disapproval forced them from England; three of their children died in infancy or childhood; and while Shelley was an aristocrat and a genius, he was also moody and had little money. Mary conceived of her magnum opus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, when she was only nineteen when Lord Byron suggested they tell ghost stories at a house party. The resulting book took over two years to write and can be seen as the brilliant creation of a powerful but tormented mind. The story of Frankenstein has endured nearly two centuries and countless variations because of its timeless exploration of the tension between our quest for knowledge and our thirst for good. Shelley drowned when Mary was only 24, leaving her with an infant and debts. She died from a brain tumor on February 1, 1851 at the age of 54.

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