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What Is The Significance Of Mary Shelley Giving The Subtitle ‘The Modern Prometheus’ To Her Novel Frankenstein?
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What Is The Significance Of Mary Shelley Giving The Subtitle 'The Modern Prometheus' To Her Novel Frankenstein? When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, in 1818, she subtitled it 'The Modern Prometheus' a literary allusion to the Greek and Roman Prometheus myths. According to the Greek version of the myth, told by the Greek Aeschylus in his play 'Prometheus Bound', Prometheus was a Titan and was the friend and benefactor of all humanity. He stole fire from the heavens as a gift for the human race. This incurred the wrath of the Greek king of the gods, Zeus, who chained Prometheus to a rock, for eternity, where an eagle would come to peck out his liver, which would then re-grow within his body overnight. Humankind was also separated from the heavens as an additional punishment. Heracles eventually releases him from this 'eternal' torment. However, according to the Roman version of the...
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