ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Shelley gave her novel the subheading “The modern Prometheus.” The Classical Titan, who stole fire from the gods and gifted it to man, was tortured eternally for his crimes. In a parallel fable, the prodigious Victor Frankenstein places the spark of life into a creature which he does not know how to control.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein is famously subtitled The Modern Prometheus, after the Greek myth of the god Prometheus. This Greek god steals the sacred fire of Mount Olympus and gifts it to humanity. The supreme god Zeus condemns Prometheus to eternal punishment for his treachery against the gods.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Shelley allude Prometheus through Victor Frankenstein’s character. With a knowledge in science, Shelley enhanced Victor’s character for discovering lighting as a source of power to turn back dead back to life.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 20-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. In Shelley’s tale, a scientist animates a creature constructed from dismembered corpses.

Detailed explanation-5: -Prometheus represents human progress and advancements, which enable mankind to defy the laws of nature. One of the major themes is that the excessive pride and defiance against nature can have many unwanted consequences.