Prometheus Bound

The time is shortly after Prometheus gave fire to men and was bound to the rocky peak of Caucasus. One day a strange creature appeared to him in the form of a young female cow who has not borne a calf, but talked like a human girl who was driven mad with misery. When the girl saw Prometheus she stopped in her tracks and began to weep about her misfortunes. Prometheus then recognized her as the daughter of Inachus, Io. He then recounts how Io had an affair with Zeus and that it was Hera who caused

As he hammers the Titan Prometheus to a rock for all eternity, Hephaestus in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound says “no one, save Prometheus, can justly blame me” (Aeschylus 63). These words draw attention to the question of perspective and how it relates to the play. While Hephaestus may say that no one except Prometheus can “blame” him for following orders to punish Prometheus for his defiance to the Gods, other characters in the play and readers alike may blame him for obeying a decree that they deem

Running head: IS FRANKENSTEIN THE MODERN DAY PROMETHEUS? Is Frankenstein the modern day Prometheus? Irvin M. Beacham Jr. ENC 1101 Dr. Gaspar Is Frankenstein the modern day Prometheus? When Mary Shelly wrote her 1818 classic Frankenstein, she subtitled it “The Modern Prometheus.” She compared the character of Dr. Victor Frankenstein a highly intelligent scientist to the Greek Titan Prometheus the wisest of the Titans. There are numerous parallels

Originating from different sides of an ancient and bloody war, Prometheus and Zeus start from different ends of a spectrum. As a young god, Zeus is thereby a young ruler. His inexperience in ruling is obvious. Zeus had established his reign by violently overthrowing his father in a bloody war and spread his rule through subjugation. By imprisoning Cronus and the Titans in Tartarus and appointing his relatives and children in positions under him, Zeus forcefully raised himself into the position of

Christian Myth According to the Christian Myth, God created the world and all living things. They saw God as having three forms or aspects God, the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit, who carries out God’s will on earth. They believed that God sent Jesus to tell people about God, and that Jesus died to forgive Humanity’s sins. They believed that Jesus will return at the end of time, when there will be a New Creation of life. The following creation story is found in Genesis

define the author’s moral values as it relates to his feud with his brother Perses. This dichotomy reveals itself with the conflicting versions of Prometheus and Pandora present in the two poems. In Works and Days, Hesiod attempts to expose Perses’s mistakes through the interaction of Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus. Hesiod relates himself to Prometheus and takes great effort to portray the immortal in a positive light. Epimetheus, who could be described as Perses’ surrogate, is a fool. He takes

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a mishmash of stories within stories within a story, and several other texts are referenced within this amalgamation of literature. The intertextual links made in Frankenstein help to provide the reader with a greater insight into the mind of Mary Shelley and her most famous work. References to the text Paradise lost and Greek mythology in the development of characters adds depth to a tale of creation and destruction, causing the questions Shelley asks about humanity

latter's Paradise Lost which informs the themes and structure of the novel more than any other source. Like many of her contemporaries, Mary Shelley draws parallels between Milton's Satan and the Titan Prometheus of Greek myth. However, the two are not simply equated (as in Byron's poem, "Prometheus"), but appear in various facets through both Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Furthermore, God, Zeus, and Adam are also evoked through these

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? [...] God, in pity, made man after his own image,” (Shelley, 65-69). Frankenstein, the tale of creation, was published by Mary Shelley in 1818. She, born on August 30, 1797, in London, England, lived a life full of despair. Through the horror and love within her life, the inspiration of this classic romantic novel was conceived. It is a story of the struggle of both the creator and the created. Furthermore

When looking at Myth it is easy to get lost in the epic stories of Hero’s and Heroines as you go on an adventure with them through real places and time, facing their trials and tribulations like Agamemnon and the sack of Troy, or following Zeus on one of his many adventures. Whilst cultures don’t seem to question the authenticity, modern scholars try and make sense of them, by reading ancient hymns and scripts and theorising why the myth was created in the first place. In modern times, scholars