The question as to whether or not the wretch's behavior is justified is one such moral dilemma that haunts the readers of this gothic tale. ... Beyond this, it reaches into the moral and ethical principles of responsibility for life in particular the responsibility of a parent to nurture and guide the life of one whom he or she has created, for without it that individual is lost....
Once Frankenstein is immobilized by his own moral dilemma, his creation escapes and in the act of being unbound, brings about the destruction of Frankenstein, all that he loves and the world as he knows it. ... The problem becomes the ethical or moral considerations of creation. ...
Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, is a modern Titan Prometheus of Greek mythology in his desire to overcome man's limitations and gain God-like power. The full title of Shelly's novel and the influence of the myth of Prometheus Bound may be noted. For the romantics Prometheus became a symbol of man's resistance and rebellion against political despotism. Whereas in the Greek myth, Prometheus bows before the power of the gods, the hero of P.B. Shelly's "Prometheus Unbound- is relentless in his resistance and glorifies the virtues of revolt, representing a...
