Frankenstein

Tiêu đề: Frankenstein Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:24 pm

Introduction

Truyện tương đối ngắn (đọc có 1h chứ nhiêu), từ vựng cũng dễ hiểu, vài từ có thể đoán được nghĩa mà không cần tra từ điển (and we should do that)... túm lại là nên đọc.

"Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He
takes parts from dead people and builds a new man. But this monster is
so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even
Frankenstein himself !
The monster is like an enormous baby who
needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And,
because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill..."

1

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"Captain! Something is moving on the ice. Look over there!"
The
sailor stood at the top of the mast, high above the Captain. His hand
pointed away from the ship, across the miles of ice that covered the
sea.
The Captain looked to the north, where the sailor was pointing.
He saw something coming fast towards the ship across the ice. He put
his telescope to his eye, and through it he could see the shapes of ten
dogs pulling a sledge - a huge figure, much bigger than a man.
The
sledge came nearer and nearer to the sea. Soon it was only a quarter of
a mile from the ship. No one needed a telescope now to see the huge
figure of the driver.
Suddenly the sledge went behind a mountain of
ice and disappeared. At that moment another sledge appeared. It, too,
was moving fast, and was clearly chasing the first sledge. This driver
was a smaller figure, more like an ordinary man. Faster and faster the
dogs ran; then the second sledge also disappeared behind the mountain
of ice.
Two hours passed. The sledges did not appear again. Nothing
moved on the ice. Soon night came, and in the night there was a storm.
In the morning, the sailor saw that great pieces of ice were floating
round the ship. Suddenly the sailor on the mast shouted again.
"Captain, I can see a man on the ice."
The
sailor was pointing to a piece of ice that was floating near the ship.
A man was sitting on the ice, and nnnnnnnear him was a broken sledge.
The man was nearly dead from cold and could not walk. The sailors
carried him carefully on to the ship, and took him to the Captain, who
said:
"Welcome to my ship. I am the Captain and my name is Robert Walton."
"Thank you, Captain Walton," the man said. " My name is Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein."
Then he fainted and said no more.
Two days pass before the man eas strong enough to talk and then the Captain asked him to tell his story.
"I am trying to catch someone," said Frankenstein,"That is why I have come so far north on the ice."
"We
saw you following someone," the Captain said. "He was huge, much bigger
than a man. We saw his sledge just in front of you on the night before
the storm."
"I am pleased you all saw that huge figure,"Frankenstein said. " Perhaps that will help you to believe my story."
During
the days, while the Captain worked on the ship, Frankenstein wrote down
his story, and each evening he read what he had written to the Captain.
Here is Victor Frankenstein's story.

Victor Frankenstein's Story Begins

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I
was born in Switzerland, in the town of Geneva. My parents loved each
other very much, and I learnt from the example of their love. I learnt
that to love and to be patient are the most important things in the
world.
My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born, but for
five years I was the only child. And then my mother found a sister for
me. She was helpng a family in which there were five chldren. They were
very poor, and the children were thin and hungry. One of the children
was a little girl, with golden hair and blue eyes. Her name was
Elizabeth. My mother took the little girl into our family, and
Elizabeth became the daughter that my mother had always wanted. As I
grew older, my love for Elizabeth became stronger all the time.
Later
my mother had two other sons, Ernest and William. A young womancalled
Justine came to live in the house to help my mother with the children.
We loved her as much as she loved us.
The years passed happily, and
we had everything that we needed. At school I met another very fine
person. His name was Henry Clerval, and he was very clever. My family
also liked him very much, so he was a welcome visitor to our house.
I
studied very hard at school. I wanted to know the secrets of life, and
most of all, I wanted to know how to make living things. I read all the
bools that I could find. One day, something happened that added a new
idea to the ideas that I already had. I was fifteen att the time, and
we were on holiday in the moutains. There was a wild storm, and with it
came the most frightening thunder and lightning that I have ever seen
in my life. About twenty metres in front of our house was a great tree.
Suddenly a huge fork of lightening hit the tree. After a few seconds,
there was nothing left of it except a black piece wood two metres high.
The lightning had destroyed it.
I saw how strong electricity was. I began to read all the books that I could find about electricity and its terrible power.

3

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For seventeen years my life was very happy. Then the first sad thing
happened. My mother became very ill, and soon she knew that she was
dying. Just before she died, she asked Elizabeth and me to go to her
room. She held our hands and said:
" My children, I am very happy
because you love each other, and because one day you will get married.
Everyone in the family loves you, Elizabeth. Will you take my place in
the family, my dear? I can die happy if you will look after them when I
have gone."
My mother died, and we were very sad, because we loved
her dearly. Elizabeth was brave and helped us; her sweet smile gave us
some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother's death.
The time
came for me to go to university. I did not want to leave my sad family,
but we all knew that I should go. It was hard to leave, too, because
the parents of my good friend Henry Clerval would not let him go to
university with me. And so I had to go alone.
On my first day at the
university I met my teacher, Professor Waldman, who was one of the
greatest scientists of tomorrow. You must study hard and discover
everything that you can. That is why God made you intelligent - to help
other people."
After the professor's talk, I thought very carefully.
I remembered the storm when I was fifteen. I remembered how the
lightning had destroyed the tree. I wanted to use the electricity to
help people, and I wanted to discover the secrets of life. I decided to
work on these two things. I did not know then that my work would
destroy me and the people that I loved.
I started work the next day.
I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I
could learn to be a very good scientist.
The professor helped me
very much, and other important scientists who were his friends helped
me, too. I was interested in my work and I did not take one day's
holiday during the next two years. I did not go home, and my letters to
my family were very short.
After two years I had discovered many
things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything
in the university. My machine would help me answer the most important
questions about life into dead things? To answer these questions about
life I had to learn first about death. I had to watch bodies from the
moment when they died and the warm life left them. In the hospital and
in the university, I watched the dying and the dead. Day after day,
month after monthe, I followed death. It was a dark and terrible time.
Then
one day, the answer came to me. Suddenly I was sure that I knew the
secret of life. I knew that I could put life into a body that was not
alive.
I worked harder and harder now. I slept for only a short time
each night, and I did not eat much food. I wrote to my family less
often. But they loved me and did not stop writing to me. They said they
understood how busy I was. They did not want me to stop work to write
or to see the,. They would wait until I had more time. They hoped to
see me very soon.
The professors realized that I was doing very
important work, and so they gave me my own laboratory. There was a
small flat above the laboatory, where I lived, and sometimes I stayed
inside the biulding for a week and did not go out.
Above the
laboratory I built a very tall mast. It was 150 mestres high, and
higher than the tallest building in the city. The mast could catch
lightning and could send the electricity to give life to things that
were dead.
I will say no more than that. The secret of my machine
must die with me. I was a very clever scientist, but I did not realize
then what a terrible mistake I was making.

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In my laboratory I made a body. I bought or stole all the pieces of
human body that I needed, ans I slowly and carefully, I put them all
together.
I did not let anybody enter my laboratory or my flat while
I was doing this awful work. I was afraid to tell anybody my terrible
secret.
I had wanted to make a beautiful man, but the face of the
creature was horrible. Its skin was thin and yellow and its eyes were
as yellow as its skin. Its long black hair and white teeth were almost
beautiful, but the rest of the face was very ugly.
Its legs and arms
were the right shape, but they were huge. I had to use big pieces
because it was too difficult to join small pieces together. My creature
was two and a half metres tall.
For a year I had worked to make this
feature, but now it looked terrible and frightening. I almost decided
to destroy it. But I could not. I had to know if I could put life into
it.
I joined the body to wires from my machine. More wires joined
the machine to the mast. I was sure that my machine could use
electricity from lightning to give life to the body. I watched and
waited. Two days later I saw dark clouds in the sky, and I knew that a
storm was coming. At about one o'clock in the morning the lightning
came. My mast began to do its work immediately, and the electricity
from the lightning travelled down the mast to my machine. Would the
machine work?
At first nothing happened. But after a few minutes I
saw the creatures's body begin to move. Slowly, terribly, the body came
alive. Its arms and legs began to move, and slowly it sat up.
The
dead body had been an ugly thing, but alive, it was much more horrible.
Suddenly I wanted to escape from it. I ran our of the laboratory, and
locked the door. I was filled with fear at what I had done.
For
hours I walked up and down in my flat. At last I lay down on my bed,
and fell asleep. But my sleep was full of terrible dreams, and I woke
up suddenly. The horrible thing that I had created was standing by my
bed. Its yellow eyes were looking at me; its mouth opened and it made
strange sound ar me. On its yellow face there was an awful smile. One
of its huge hands reached towards me...
Before it could touch me, I
jumped off the bed and ran downstairs into the garden. I stayed there
all night, but I could not think clearly. I was afraid. And when
morning came, I went out into the town and began to walk about.
I
did not notice where I was walking, but soon I came to the station. A
train from Geneva had just arrived, and the passengers were leaving the
station. One of them ran towards me when he saw me. It was my dear
friend Henry Clerval.
He was very pleased to see me. He took my hand and shook it warmly.
"
My dear Victor!" he said. " What a lucky chance that you are here at
the station. Your father, and Elizabeth and others, are very worried
about you, because you have not visited them for a long time. They
asked me to make sure that you are well. And I have very good news. My
father has agreed to let me study at the university, so we shall be
able to spend a lot of time together.
I was very happy to hear this
news, and for a moment I forgot my fears. I took Henry back to my flat
and asked hom to wait outside while I went in to look. I was afraid
that the creature was still there. But it had disappeared. At that time
I did not think of other people, and what the creature could do to
them. I took Henry into the flat and cooked a meal for us. But Henry
noticed how thin I was, and that I was laughing too much and could not
sit still.
Suddenly he said:" My dear Victor, what is the matter with you? Are you ill? Has something awful happened?"
"
Dont ask me that," I cried. I put my hands over my eyes. I thought I
could see the horrible creature there in front of me. I pointed wildly
across the room, and shouted: "He can tell you. Save me! Save me!" I
tried to fight the creature, but there was nothing there. Then I
fainted and fell to the floor.
Poor Henry! I do not know what he
thought. He called a doctor and they put me to bed. I was very ill for
two months, and Henry stayed and looked after me. His loving care saved
me from death.
I wanted to go home and see my family as soon as
possible. When I was well enough, I packed my clothes and books. All my
luggage was ready, and I was feeling very happy when the postman
arrived with some letters. One of the letters ended my short time of
happiness.

[to be countinued...]

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:42 pm

bóc tem đây, cảm ơn bạn Mai nhá. Nếu có bản tiếng việt nữa thì hay. Dù gì thì cũng thks. clap clap clap

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:14 pm

Fantastic, đang đọc ngon lành thì.....to be continued. hihi

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:12 pm

Wá pro!!!! Đọc xong thì mắt mình lên độ cũng nhìu , nhưng từ vựng thì tăng lên đáng kể Very Happy

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:34 pm

Oh de.Đọc hem hiểu gì hết nhưng mà có thông dịch viên dịch giùm nên củng hiểu dc Very Happy

.Cảm ơn chị Mai nhìu nhìu

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:22 am

Bùn hiu, nhìn câu giới thiệu "truyện tương đối ngắn". Kéo xuống thấy cũng được được, ai nhè còn cái dòng be bé "to be continued". Vậy đợi bạn Mai post hết rùi Tết mình đọc lun thể vậy hihi.

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:30 pm

tiếp đi, tiếp đi nưã Mai ơi đọc giưã chừng, hứng tụt lút oì, cái này bà đắng bằng tay hả affraid

?

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:23 pm

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The letter was from my father in Geneva, and this is what he wrote:

My dear Victor,

I
want you to know before you arrive home that an awful thing has
happened. Your dear youngest brother, William, is dead. He was
murdered. It happened last Thursday evening when Elizabeth and I and
your two brothers, Ernest and William, went for a walk outside the
city. William and Ernest were playing, William had hidden from Ernest,
and Ernest asked Elizabeth and me to help find William. We all began to
search for him, but we couldn't find him. We searched all night. At
five in the morning I found him. He was lying on the grass, white and
still. I could see the marks of fingers on his neck - the merderer has
strangled him.

Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of her
round his neck. On the chain was a very small picture of your mother.
We all think that someone murdered William to steal the gold chain.
Poor Elizabeth is terribly unhappy at William's death. She thinks he
died because she let him wear the chain. Hurry home, my dear Victor.
You are the only one who can help Elizabeth, and we all need you.

With all our love,
Your Father

Henry
helped me to catch the train. The journey seemed very long, and it was
late at night before the train reached Geneva. I decided to spend the
night in a village outside the town and go home early in the morning. I
wanted to see the place where William had died.

As I started
my walk, a storm broke and lightning lit the sky. The police had put
posts round the place where the murdered had strangled William, so I
found it easily. I cried sadly as I stood there. My poor brother had
been a kind and happy boy, and we had all loved him.

Again the
lightning lit the sky, and I saw a huge figure standing in the rain.
When I saw it, I knew at once what it was. It was the creature that I
had made.

What was he doing there? But although I asked myself
the question, I knew the answer. He had murdered my brother. I was sure
that I was right.

I decided to try and catch him. But as I
moved, he ran towards the moutains. He ran much faster than any man. He
climbed the mountain easily, reached the top, and disappeared.

I stood there in the dark and the rain, and knew that I had created a monster. And he had murdered my brother.

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At
first I decided to tell the police my story. But would they believe me?
I had been very ill. When the police learnt about my illness, they
would think the monster was just one of my bad dreams. I decided that I
could not tell anybody.

I went home to my family and they were
very pleased to see me. Then they told me that the police had found the
murderer. Perhaps you will think that this was good news, but I have
not told you who the police had arrested.

As I went into the
house, I noticed that one person did not come to meet me. It was
Justin, the young woman who looked after the children and who was like
a sister to us. And it was Justine that the police had arrested.

A
few days after murderer, the police had searched the house and had
found the gold chain in Justine's coat pocket. Everyone in the family
knew that Justine had not murdered William. I knew who the murderer
was, but I could not tell anyone. We were sure that Justine would be
free after the trial, because nobody could believe that she was a
murderer. But we were wrong.

The trial did not go well for
Justine. There were a number of strange facts that were difficult to
explain, and the judge decided that she was the murdered. The
punishment for murderer was death. We argued and cried.

We said
she could not murder anyone. But nothing could change the judge's
order. So I got up early and went to the judge's house and told him
about the monster. He did not believe me. He thought I was lying in
order to save Justine's life.

In the prison Justine waited
quietly for death. We spent many hourrs with her, and she spoke calmly
and kindly to us. She was happy because we belived that she had not
killed William. And she was almost looking forward to death, because
then she would be with William and our dear mother in a place of peace.

Her
love and gentleness added to my great unhappiness. I knew she was going
to die because of me. I knew my brother had died because of me. I had
brought nothing but sadness and misery to my family.

I took a
boat and went out on Lake Geneva. Why didnt I end my life then? Two
things stopped me. My father was old and another death would probably
kill him. And I had to stay alive - to keep my family safe from the
monster.

Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me
day and night. I became ill again, and Elizabeth's love could not help
me. I needed to escape for a while - to leave my unhappiness behind me.
So I went to walk alone in the Alps. I hoped the wild beauty of the
moutains would help me.

Slowly I became calmer among the
beautiful moutains. I learnt to sleep again, and for days I did not see
anybody. Then one morning I saw a figure coming towards me faster than
any man could go. It jumped easily over the rocks and I sar with horror
the monster that I had created. On his face was a look of deep sadness,
but also of evil. At first I could not speak because I hated him so
much. But at last I said:

" You are an evil creature. I shall kill you if I can, because you have killed two people that I love"

The
monster's yellow eyes looked at me. " I am the unhappiest creature in
the world, but I shall fight for my life," he said. " I am bigger and
stronger than you, but I will not start the fight. I shall always be
gentle to you because you are my king and creator. You made me, and you
should love me and be kind to me, like a father. William ad Justine
died because you did not love me. Why did you create me if you were not
ready to love me?"

"We are enemies," I said. "Leave me now, or let us fight until one of us is dead. You are a murderer. How can I be kind to you?"

"You
say I am a murderer," the monster said,"but you want to kill your own
creature. Isn't that wrong, too?" I ask you to do one thing for me -
listen. Come with me to a warmer place, and listen to my story. Then
you can decide."

I thought carefully about what he had said. It
was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love. I
decided to go with him and listen to his story.

He took me to a moutain hut where he lit a fire. We sat down by the fire and he began to tell me his story.

@blackphoenix: ko, tui ko có khùng tongue

Cái này người khác đánh, tui... trưng dụng Cool

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:53 pm

àh thì ra vậy , mọi người tự coi mình đi, thấy bạn Mai viết bài chấ tlượgn chưa, chứ đâu như anh admin long, đăng rồi mod .... ( trong đó hình như có tui Sad

) spam
tại tui thấy lạ nếu là có sẵn thì copy hết chứ để to be continoued hồi hợp chờ qúa giống giống vậy nè -> Sleep

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:54 am

..Tín già, nhìu chiện, phải nói là, ai như ông, có type vài chữ cũng hok giống ng nữa..
@ Mai: mỏi mắt, đọc dc f1 òoài, còn phần sau để..từ từ tính!..

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:59 pm

ủa, phần này hết thiệ tgòi àh Question

, tui nghĩ còn nữa chứ ?????? What a Face

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:12 pm

Thì đã bảo là người ta đánh máy, tui trưng dụng mà, người ta hỏng đánh... lấy chi tui trưng dụng rabbit

Bao giờ mượn được truyện tui up lên cho (nó nằm trong thư viện tiếng Anh á), bi chừ tui đương kẹt thẻ study

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:57 am

Mai quá PRO, để Khoai len mạng tìm thử xem, nếu có sẽ post típ dùm Mai... (Hên xui tìm dc?)

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:07 pm

nếu có ngừoi ta ch8ác cũng đã tìm rồi không dư thời gian tới độ chép ra đâu Shocked

, mi kiếm thử đi, làm kiểu đó bạn MAi không biết lấy gì mà spam nữa đâu đó What a Face

(sr nha mai cheers

)

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:33 pm

blackphoenix^^ đã viết:: nếu có ngừoi ta ch8ác cũng đã tìm rồi không dư thời gian tới độ chép ra đâu , mi kiếm thử đi, làm kiểu đó bạn MAi không biết lấy gì mà spam nữa đâu đó (sr nha mai )

What? Tín, ý ông là sao? Suspect

Lẽ dĩ nhiên, con người đầy tài năng như tui mà còn hổng kiếm ra thì lấy ai kiếm cho ra nữa afro

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:48 am

ý tui là sao hả???cái đó tui cũng hổng biết, lời nói vu vơ ấy mà, đi ra một nghĩa nhưng biết đâu vô người khác lại nhìêu nghĩa khác Rolling Eyes

cái này tui hổng cản dc nha Smile

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:38 am

ủa..tui đang đọc ngon lành...gòai kết thúc cái đùng là sao rứa?..
@ Tín: nhìu chiện....giỏi thì post típ tui coi!
@ Mai: típ pà, tui đang ghiền!

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:42 am

wow, ca'i chie^.n na`y hay thie^.t hen.

Tiêu đề: Re: Frankenstein Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:27 pm

Ủa, CĐ cũng có vô đây nữa hả =))