... with Prometheus, Mary Shelley was alluding to both versions of the Prometheus myth: Prometheus plasticator and Prometheus pyrphoros" (71). In the first version Prometheus creates man from clay. In the alternate, more famous version of the myth, Prometheus is the fire-stealer, the titan who defied Jupiter's tyrannical oppression of humanity by giving fire to man and was then punished by having his liver ... - like swiftness" (Frankenstein 132). Fire now becomes the agency of destruction. The creature, learning that the De Laceys will never return to their cottage and filled with feelings...

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