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The Probable Future World Forecasted in Mary Shelly's ‘Frankenstein' and H. G. Wells' ‘The Time Machine'

瑪麗雪萊的“科學怪人”和威爾斯的“時光機器”所預見的未來世界

摘要


瑪麗雪萊的「科學怪人」和威爾斯的「時光機器」是兩本極具創造力與想像力的科幻小說。瑪麗雪萊描寫科學怪人的誕生導致了一場無法收拾的悲劇,威爾斯利用時光機器,穿越時空預見艾洛伊族(Eloi)和莫洛克族(Morlocks)的兩個截然不同的世界。作者們運用豐富的想像力洞見未來可能的世界,然而科幻小說的目的的並不僅止於此。科幻小說通常是用來探索人的定位及其在宇宙中的定位,而且這些科幻故事都是架構於當時最先進卻令人困惑的知識基礎上。本文將從瑪麗雪萊和威爾斯的寫作背景探討故事主題與北後所傳達的訊息,以及人物的代表象徽與故事中所提出的問題究竟給了生活在知識科技爆炸時代中的人類什麽樣的警告。

並列摘要


Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and H. G. Wells’‘The Time Machine’ are science fictions of creativeness and imagination. The creation of Frankenstein causes a tragedy beyond man’s control. The Time Machine takes readers to experience a journey through time and space to meet “Eloi” and “Morlocks”. The authors see a vision of the probable future world. However, the there is more to discuss in science fictions. “Science fiction is the search for the definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand on our advanced but confused state of knowledge.” This paper is to identify themes and the messages the authors convey to scholars, enumerate the characters that appear in the novels and recognize who or what they represent, and find out the conclusions or universal questions that the authors express to people who are living at the age of advanced technology and knowledge.

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