... gods, the hero of P.B. Shelly's "Prometheus Unbound- is relentless in his resistance and glorifies the virtues of revolt, representing authority (political, religious and scientific) as responsible for man's sufferings. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein combines characteristics of the mythological hero with those of the Romantic one. Like Aeschylus` Prometheus, Frankenstein defies God and upsets the pre-established nature of ... literary works which typify the genre more closely such as H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Invisible Man. More popularly, Shelley's novel has inspired robo...

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