On Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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Environmental Criticism
The novel is written at a time when it seemed as if the Empire of Ice was advancing across the globe. Victor creates this new species and then doesn't let it exist as a species. So there is a question of what humanity owes to other species that I think is very central to the novel. It speaks to our current way of thinking about environmental ethics.
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