Prometheus

Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, A Modern Prometheus teaches that like youth in modern society, the creature’s development was influenced by both internal and external factors. It was on a dreary night in november, when Frankenstein’s creation is brought to life. “It was already one in the morning ; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open, it breathed hard…

According to Greek legend, Prometheus bestowed upon mankind the igniter of a cultural spark: fire. Without the gift of fire, men would have been left in the dark in innumerous ways. Fire illuminated the path towards the creation of the thriving cultures that we know today. Plus, Prometheus didn’t just give mankind fire. He also gifted them with the knowledge of different trades: brick making, woodworking, astrology, science and math, language, domestication of animals, navigation of the sea,…

Prometheus was known to be the creator of mankind and the one to provide mankind with the gift of fire. Prometheus also went by the name Promitheas. He was one of the Titans and son to Lapetus and Clymene. Prometheus had three brothers Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius. During the war of Titanomachy, a battle between the Titans and the Olympian Gods, Prometheus decided to side with Zeus instead of helping his people. Because of this he was not punished with the rest of the Titans and wasn't sent…

In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, secrets were a benefactor throughout the entire novel and brought Prometheus feeling eager and cocky to finding these ostensible “secrets of the earth”, and disapproved and/or approved men for feeling and/or not feeling the same way. Prometheus thinks highly of himself and traits of being smarter, wiser, and better than everybody else “We do not know, but we shall learn. We cannot stop now, even though it frightens us that we are alone in knowledge” (Rand 54), and “No…

Reading stories and analyzing characters, one who could be considered a trickster would be Prometheus. Prometheus, also known as the God of Fire, appeared as one of the twelve primary Titans in Greek Mythology. Prometheus was extremely wise, intellectual, and had a great ability to “trick” the king, Zeus. Prometheus used his clever intellect and tricked Zeus into switching sacrifices…eating the bones and fat which were really leftovers, instead of the…

Powerful and harsh are the gods of ancient Greece. They are to be respected, worshipped and feared in order to live a peaceful and long life. Hesiod represents these gods in similar but contrasting ways through the tale of Prometheus and Pandora in his poems, Works and Days and The Theogony. Though both poems are different and take on a different form they are both considered wisdom literature because we learn a lesson of right and wrong from the tales being told. In these poems we examine the…

Mythology Essay Greek myths have many times where the Gods were cruel. Although, the cruelty of these Gods is not always justified. Because of them not always being justified this may explain the greeks view of the universe as self centered. The cruelty can be justified when the gods are doing it as the correct punishment for a crime. However, a greater amount of the time the gods cruelty is not justified as they are doing it for their own revenge against someone or just for the sake of…

claim that Prometheus was motivated by his love of man and that the action is a crime because it defies the boundary between…

Raisin in the sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses an allusion to compare Walter Lee to the mythical Prometheus (856). George called Walter Lee “Prometheus” because, “Prometheus" fits Walter's passionate temperament. Prometheus was a Greek God from ancient Greek Myths who did not fight the Olympians. Prometheus was one of the two men who were not locked under the earth and the two men were given jobs. Prometheus started to think of using his job as revenge against the Olympians, because although he was…

line of descendants with Clymene (cite): “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread; for it was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed.” It’s no incident that Hesiod places this passage…