Claim: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was a Climate Refugee

taz (54)in #ridiculae • 9 years ago

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story was conceived in a washout of a Summer on Lake Geneva. Does this make Frankenstein a metaphor for a homeless climate refugee? Seeing ‘Frankenstein’ through the lens of climate change … In France, they met up with Mary's half-sister Claire, Lord Byron (Claire's lover), and Byron's…