The Modern Prometheus Encompassing the whole of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is a creature-creator relationship that is constantly evolving and shifting throughout the entire story. The entire novel is the story of origination and originator, as the entire work focuses on the relationship of creators and creations. In relation, the alternate name of Frankenstein is The Modern Prometheus, a myth of creation and punishment that can be seen throughout the entire work. Likewise the creation story of God and man, or the paternal relationship of father and son, even the antagonist and protagonist relationships define and premiere in Mary Shelley’s novel. Victor Frankenstein is a father of a new race, a Lord and king, and the author of his ruin--all
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Frankenstein is constantly represented as God and the creature calls himself Adam while he is represented as Adam and Lucifer. Frankenstein is God purely in the creation and punishment sense, he created the creature that is Adam and he punished the creature that is lucifer. Adam is an obvious comparison with the creature due to him being the first of his kind, being alone in world full of other strange creatures and desiring a mate to be his companion. However, in a sense the creature is more like Lucifer and more frequently associates himself with Lucifer in all cases except for when speaking of his loneliness. “I ought to be thy Adam, but rather I am the fallen angel whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed”(105). The creature sees the obvious associations between him and lucifer. Lucifer is a son of light unjustly cast out from an offended heaven, as is the creature. The creature is unjustly cast out because of his offending appearance, offending ‘God’ or Frankenstein. It is also noted that the creature was originally benevolent and loving, and did not desire evil, misery and the knowledge of his situation made him a fiend(105). This is extremely close to the statement of Harold Bloom in the afterword of Frankenstein, “...Satans despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness and for Satan every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair”(253). The creature wants to be God’s Adam because Adam is a pure loved-by-God creature, unlike Lucifer who was cast out, the creature should have been his Adam because he should have had the loving and forgiving care of his creator. The creature longs to be Frankenstein 's Adam so he could have the creator and creation bond that he read about but is irrevocably cursed to remain the Lucifer to Frankenstein 's
Frankenstein is constantly represented as God and the creature calls himself Adam while he is represented as Adam and Lucifer. Frankenstein is God purely in the creation and punishment sense, he created the creature that is Adam and he punished the creature that is lucifer. Adam is an obvious comparison with the creature due to him being the first of his kind, being alone in world full of other strange creatures and desiring a mate to be his companion. However, in a sense the creature is more like Lucifer and more frequently associates himself with Lucifer in all cases except for when speaking of his loneliness. “I ought to be thy Adam, but rather I am the fallen angel whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed”(105). The creature sees the obvious associations between him and lucifer. Lucifer is a son of light unjustly cast out from an offended heaven, as is the creature. The creature is unjustly cast out because of his offending appearance, offending ‘God’ or Frankenstein. It is also noted that the creature was originally benevolent and loving, and did not desire evil, misery and the knowledge of his situation made him a fiend(105). This is extremely close to the statement of Harold Bloom in the afterword of Frankenstein, “...Satans despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness and for Satan every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair”(253). The creature wants to be God’s Adam because Adam is a pure loved-by-God creature, unlike Lucifer who was cast out, the creature should have been his Adam because he should have had the loving and forgiving care of his creator. The creature longs to be Frankenstein 's Adam so he could have the creator and creation bond that he read about but is irrevocably cursed to remain the Lucifer to Frankenstein 's