弗兰肯斯坦与异化观 Frankenstein and Alienation开题报告

1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述包含参考文献）

1. introduction

mary wollstonecraft shelley ( august 30th, 1797february 1st, 1851) was an english novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, andtravel writer, best known for hergothic novelfrankenstein: or, the modern prometheus(1818). she also edited and promoted the works of her husband, theromantic poetand philosopherpercy bysshe shelley. recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of mary shelleys achievements. scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels valperga(1823) and perkin warbeck(1830), the apocalyptic novel the last man (1826), and her final two novels, lodore(1835) and falkner(1837). studies of her lesser-known works such as the travel book rambles in germany and italy(1844) and the biographical articles dionysius lardner's cabinet cyclopaedia(1829-1846) support the growing view that mary shelley remained a political radical throughout her life.

her best-known novel frankenstein is about eccentric scientist victor frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. the first edition was published anonymously in london in 1818. shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in france in 1823.

2. 研究的基本内容、问题解决措施及方案

1. research topic

this paper is supposed to analyze the theory of alienation adopted in frankenstein. our attention will be drawn to the perspective of the alienation occurred in frankenstein. the thesis aims to find out the how alienation is used in this novel. marxs four types of alienation that occur to the worker laboring under a capitalist system of industrial production will be set as a clue to find how victor gets alienation in the process of inventing and fighting against the monster. they are (i) alienation of the worker from the workfrom the product of his lab our (ii) alienation of the worker from working from the act of producing (iii) alienation of the worker from himself, as a producer from his gattungswesen (iv) alienation of the worker from other workers. these four types will be flexibly used in explaining how victor has experienced these four types of alienation and why he gets the final result.

2. research methods