Success! The body was moving. After years of work, here was a human life! I looked at him. How can I describe my feelings? The man was terribly ugly. He had thick black hair and white teeth, but his skin was yellow and dry. His eyes were very pale. He was a monster. If you say the name Frankenstein, people immediately think of a large, ugly monster. A terrible monster that kills people. But the monster in this story does not have a name — Frankenstein is the name of a young scientist. | Introduction Success The body was moving. After years of work here was a human life I looked at him. How can I describe my feelings The man was terribly ugly. He had thick black hair and white teeth but his skin was yellow and dry. His eyes were very pale. He was a monster. If you say the name Frankenstein people immediately think of a large ugly monster. A terrible monster that kills people. But the monster in this story does not have a name Frankenstein is the name of a young scientist. He learns the secret of life and creates a monster from parts of dead bodies. The monster is clever and strong. At first he looks for love and wants to be kind. But he is also very large and very ugly. When people see him they fear and hate him. Soon the monster learns to hate people and he becomes evil. Terrible things happen. Frankenstein has learned how to create life. But will this life destroy him The story of Frankenstein is known all over the world. A lot of film makers have taken ideas from the story. Sometimes writers have changed the story making it even more frightening. But the scientist and his terrible creation are always at the centre of the story. Frankenstein is probably the most famous horror story in the world. The book was the work of a young woman called Mary Shelley. She wrote it in the summer of 1816 when she was only nineteen years old. Mary Shelley was born in 1797. Her parents were both famous writers and thinkers. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft died when she was a baby. She wrote an important book about the position of women. Mary s father William Godwin believed that people are not bad. They be come bad because bad things happen to them. If people learn about evil they become evil. Mary father was her teacher and she agreed with a lot of his ideas father was her teacher and she agreed with a lot of his ideas. At that time people were also learning a lot of new things about science. They were for example discovering something very important called .
