I've never thought of it before, but Boris Karloff as the #Frankenstein 'Monster' can be looked at in terms of 'White Man's Burden'. Immigration and Amalgamation. Mary Shelley: "You don't say?" Did #BorisKarloff suffer discrimination and persecution as an immigrant-American?

But perhaps it wasn't quite the director's original intent.

I was making movies the best I could, just as ZZ Top would later produce songs that whet the prurient interests of folk.  https://www.google.com/search?q=frankenstein+director&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1--fictitious quote of James Whale. 

https://youtu.be/IuQ0GvbaAcI

Frankenstein by Johnny Winter (music, 1970; unclear if Johnny's younger Edgar Winter, his proto-group, White Trash, or the Edgar Winter Group may have composing credit on the extraordinary instrumental riffs or the song in any way), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (novel of the same name, copyright France under pseudonym, 1818, in London, England under her own name, copyright 1823); Universal Pictures' Frankenstein (1931).

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See also, Percy Shelley @   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley