Frankenstein 4

Title: Frankenstein 4
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1498 | Pages: 6.4 (approximately 235 words/page)

Frankenstein 4

According to the Greek poet Hesiod, the Titan demi-god Prometheus was responsible for the creation of men. He manufactured them from clay, from the natural earth. When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, she left little doubt that the creator of the monster, Victor Frankenstein, by making a living creature from inaminate parts was a new Prometheus. But her metaphor extends beyond the immediately obvious. In Hesiod’s myth, Prometheus had an inflated …showed first 75 words of 1498 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1498 total…to repent until his last breath, and unable to pursue the monster, is ‘chained’ to his bed with only his memories to persecute him. And Walton relinquishes his own egoism and abandons his quest in the Arctic thus allowing the story of ‘The Modern Prometheus’ to be told. The product of Prometheanism, the hapless monster, regretful of his own existence and with revenge complete, exits stage right, presumably to his death in the unknown wilderness.

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