In comparing frankenstein and realive stories i have discovered that in greek mythology the Titan was very similar to Frankensteins creator, Victor. Prometheus, in some versions of greek mythology was the Titan that created man-kind. It was also the prometheus who then secretly took fire and gave it to man. when Zeus discovered this, he eternally punished prometheus by fixing him to a rock where each day a predatory bird would come and devour his liver, then Herculed released him.
Promethes was also a myth told in latin but was a very different story. In this version Prometheus makes man from clay and water, this is a very relevant theme to Frankenstein as Victor rebels against the laws of naure and as a result is punished by his creation. Victors work in creating man by new means reflects the same work of the Titan in creating humans. Both the Titan and Victor gets punished for their creations. Victor loses the ones close to him and has the dread of himself getting killed by his own creation. For Mary Shelley Prometheus was not a hero but rather a devil,whom she blamed for bringing fire to man and thereby seducing the human race to the vice of eating meat (fire brought cooking which brought hunting and killing). This is reflected in Chapter 17 of the novel, where the "monster" speaks to Victor Frankenstein. Both these stories are very similar, the creation of a monster and the killing of the creator is illustrated in both stories.. by__ KAMINI JAIRAM
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