![]() ![]() Nick Dear’s adaptation returns in part to the Creature’s point-of-view in this classic story. And in an era defined by scientific advance and exploration, isolated in the splendor of the mountains - from the mind of 18-year old Mary Shelley, Frankenstein is born. ![]() Lord Byron proposes a challenge, a competition, to write the best ghost story. Mary writes: “The thunder storms that visit us are grander and more terrific than I have ever seen before.” Forced indoors, they read German ghost stories to pass the time. Mary’s beloved father condemned her relationship with the much older Shelley and rejected his daughter. ![]() Or is there something more? What is innate human nature?ĭuring the summer of 1816, 18-year old Mary Shelley arrived in Geneva with her lover, Percy Shelly, her step-sister, Claire, and Lord Byron. What is it to be human? The synapses of the brain fire, we shudder and we respond from the boxes of experience and images that shape us. ![]()
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