When you look at the relationship between Frankenstein and what he creates, the first thing you get is terror. No desire to protect or help, simply an instant regret for having created what he sees as an atrocity.
The fatherly nature that Prometheus takes towards humans is a key part of his being known and remembered—along with the trickery and intelligence.
I feel like looking at the overall story of Frankenstein, that there may be a tad bit of a different outcome there. Considering that Frankenstein himself left his monster to fend for himself in a countryside where if he was seen, he was feared and possibly attacked.
Granted, the monster was able to learn to speak and the basic ways of the world, but that was with no help from his creator, nor did it allow him to be accepted in the world. So why did Mary Shelley decide to connect her creature that has such a terrible experience with fire to the one who brings fire to human beings? I think it is significant to note here, that fire is a connection to the monster instead of Frankenstein, the main character of the book.
There are a handful of these connections between Victor and Prometheus as well, like them both being, or thinking that they are, the smartest of their kind, and their connection to creation. It wanted Victor to know how it felt during its life, lonely and misunderstood. Ligon Duncan III. This essay will be focusing on the relationship between the gothic novel of Frankenstein, and the greek myth of Prometheus. It will be a compare and contrast of the dueling stories.
In the novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, Victor and the Creature are the main references when it comes to the issues of morality. As a result, the creation decides to get revenge on Victor by killing all of his loved ones, consequently causing Victor and the creation to devote their lives to obtaining vengeance upon one another.
By giving her characters the trait of ambition, Mary Shelley uses her novel, Frankenstein, to express that going beyond the limits of ambition can cause people to negatively change who they are in society. Early in the book, as Victor starts to construct the creation, he becomes passionate in his work,.
Victor blames himself for the deaths of his friends when he says, "I am the cause of this-I murdered her. This is essentially true because it was Frankenstein who created the Creature and made him a monster by abandoning him. It is Frankenstein who is the monster Frankenstein hating himself for lack of thought when unleashing his creation into the world upon his own kind.
In their hate they are each fighting for control of the. Similarly in Frankenstein, the light dark imagery is present, although not as evident, in that the way the creature communicates to Frankenstein is somewhat light, as he is talking in a calm and reasonable manner. Lastly, Victor suffered psychologically by watching his friends and family die one by one, and these catastrophic events happened. In the book Frankenstein, Mary Shelley used distinctive techniques to draw the reader in and find themselves to be similar, as well as dissimilar, to characters in at least one way.
Shelley knew how to tie some characters together, even if they seemed to be complete opposites. His longing to learn the secrets of the world led him to look beyond what was natural for man to achieve.
He longed to go deeper into scientific knowledge and expand the possibilities of human civilization. But like with Prometheus, going beyond the natural limits of man results in consequences. Prometheus was punished for loving his creation too well by giving him the necessities for progress.
Frankenstein, on the other hand, is disgusted by his work, and his work will eventually turn on him. I am reading Frankenstein at the moment and to understand the modern perception of what promethius was doing and why Shelley subtitled it as The Modern Promethius, this has been a useful resourse to introduce me to the Greeks and Frankenstein.
The Shelleys lived in an age of scientific advancement in which academics like themselves kept informed of the latest discoveries. What if a scientist could bring an entire human back to life? The Dr. In taking science too far, he created a monster. Frankenstein blurred this line. He claimed the power to create life and defy death.
In bringing his monster back from the grave, Dr. Frankenstein defied divine will. In his case, it was the Christian God who was offended by the hubris of science. In the case of Prometheus, it was Zeus who grew angry when humans received a gift they should not have. The gift Prometheus gave was not the power over life and death, but it enabled humans to survive nonetheless.
When Zeus was tricked into accepting scraps as an offering instead of the best cuts of meat from the sacrificial ox, he retaliated by punishing humans. He took away fire, leaving them unable to cook their food, forge weapons, or keep themselves warm.
The Titan Prometheus, who had always taken pity on mortals, saved mankind by giving fire back to them. Prometheus was harshly punished by Zeus for defying his will, enduring centuries of torment while bound in unbreakable chains. Victor Frankenstein, however, received a much more psychological torture. Frankenstein abandoned the reanimated monster, convinced his experiments had created a creature of pure evil. The Creature that Frankenstein created, however, was not initially motivated by evil.
Abandonment and loneliness however, combined with the blurred lines between life and death, led it to kill those close to the doctor.
0コメント