![]() That had a profound effect on Mary Shelley. IN THREE VOLUMESĭid I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? epigraph epigraph This epigraph quotes Paradise Lost (X.743-745), where Adam Myth, saw him as a benefactor and caretaker, not a creator whoĪbandoned his creation (77). "wretched." Frankenstein is very different from the Hesiodic understanding ofĪs Norman Austin notes in Meaning and Being in The Prometheus of Aeschylus’ drama, a creator who finds his creation Victor Frankenstein-the "modern Prometheus"-is more akin to Version of the Aeschelus play is available at the Internet ClassicsĪrchive. This poem is a response to Aeschylus’ drama Prometheus Bound, one of theįirst classical tragedies that pits Zeus’ power against Prometheus’ ego. In Shelley’s poem Zeus falls from power, allowing Mary Shelley’s husband, wrote a closet drama about the myth entitled Prometheus Unbound which can be read at While Frankenstein was being published, Percy Shelley, Prometheus dearly in one instance he is tied to a rock and his liver isĬontinually eaten and replenished every day. ![]() This slight against Zeus caused Zeus the Olympian to punish Zeus then prevented humans fromĪccessing fire, which Prometheus gave to humans by hiding it inside aįennel-stalk. Sacrifice of meat and giving it to humans. More common myth, Prometheus protected man by tricking Zeus out of a prize In one myth, Prometheus created man, but in the René-Michel Slodtz pictured from the Melbourne Museum) is a Greek trickster Prometheus Prometheus (1750 illustration of Prometheus Attacked by an Eagle by Materials have been transcribed from and checked against first editions, where In this text, however, hyphenation across pages indicates the whole word after the page beginning, because the editorial practice changed after this text had been concluded. Usually, where pages break in the middle of a word, the complete word has been Catchwords, signatures, and running headers have Hyphenation has not been retained, except where necessary for the sense of the Silently modernized and ligatured forms are not encoded. Notice an error in these annotations, please spelling and capitalization is retained, though the long s has been Annotations have also included common knowledge,ĭefined as information that can be found in multiple reliable sources. Research informing these annotations draws on publicly-accessible resources, with
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