Prometheus Unbound

of discovering the natural law of the universe and the thirst for scientific knowledge were being spread all across Europe. Mary Shelley incorporates these ideas with Victor Frankenstein's thirst for dangerous knowledge, and through allusions of Prometheus and the Genesis story. Shelley not only incorporates other supplementary readings into Frankenstein, but uses feminist literary theory as a way to put to life the idea of women’s inferiority to men. Women in the 18th century were often referred

created his first impression towards his creator. Shelley’s background writing style in this novel is based off a Gothic subgenre. Her novel uses numerous symbolisms that are used throughout the novel, one is derived from the Greek mythology of Prometheus. Frankenstein, mainly focused around inequality in the world, ignorance against knowledge, killers explained from the viewpoint of the killers, and feminist’s vantage point about the quality of men and women. Christians believe The Holy Bible is

John Hammond is in many ways Victor Frankenstein's parallel. He is the reckless creator of new life, although instead of bringing humans back to life, he resurrects extinct animals. Like Victor, Hammond comes to terms with the error of his ways. Crichton may also be commenting on the corrupting nature of business, an element that is absent from Frankenstein, in that Hammond's pursuits are not only scientific but also economic, which is frowned upon in the book and movie. Frankenstein and Jurassic

Greek Mythological Creatures In the past the Greeks were not as technologically advance as we are today, they base their explanations for strange events or occurrence with mythological gods or creatures. One of the creatures made by the Greeks was Cerberus. In the article “Cerberus” by Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, it says a Cerberus is a three headed dog with a dragon tail that guards the underworld. In the stories it says “Only a few heroes escaped this creature. He permitted all spirits

In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” she provides the readers a subtitle “The Modern Prometheus,” in order to show the allusion she has drawn between Victor Frankenstein and the Titan god Prometheus throughout the novel. Prometheus was one of the few Titan gods that sided with Zeus during the war to take control and wasn’t banished to Tartarus. He became the god of forethought and crafty counsel who was given the task to create and protect mankind. Because of a trick played upon Zeus at Mecone, Zeus

created by the gods to unknowingly conduct their revenge on Prometheus, let her curiosity win her over and neglected the warning she was given about one of the gifts she had received from them- a jar filled with evils. Her story explains how evil was given to mankind and how the division between gods and humans was restored. The myth goes that Zeus had Hephaestus create Pandora from earth and water so that he could use her to punish Prometheus after he stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind

clues that would suggest that Jack will turn into a savage with the other boys, but out of ego and disbelief, Ralph ignores these clues. In reference to the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus, for the first half of the novel up until his turning point, Ralph demonstrates Epimetheus-like traits, however over time, he begins to possess Prometheus-like traits. During the point at which Ralph has rather mindless behaviour, he is under the illusion that Jack is

civilization as we know it may not exist. By many great ancient civilizations, fire was thought to have been given to people by divine intervention. In Greek civilization, the titan Prometheus was said to have stolen fire from Zeus, and Prometheus gave this fire to humans. For his deed, Zeus cast Prometheus

create a new” (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound lines 233-235). By keeping fire for the Gods, Zeus was planning to let mankind perish, and replace them with a different race of his design. Not wanting to see the downfall of humanity, Prometheus steals fire from Zeus and gifts it to mankind, allowing them to survive. This is an example of binaries between fondness and hatred for mankind. While Zeus may not explicitly hate humans, he is more than willing to allow them to die. Prometheus steals from the Gods

Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Zeus is portrayed as a brutal and vengeful tyrant. His tyranny is mostly shown through the punishment of Prometheus. Zeus saw Prometheus giving humans fire as betrayal and as revenge, punished Prometheus by pinning him to a rocky mountain in the Caucasus. Instead of carrying out the punishment himself, Zeus had Might, Violence, and Hephaestus (who was also Prometheus’ friend) carry it out instead. As stated in lines 13-18. Hephaestus was against punishing Prometheus in such