Mythology: Prometheus

Prometheus and Epimetheus were not imprisoned in Tataros because they had not fought with their Titan compatriots during the war with the Olympic athletes. They are given a job of creating people. Prometheus formed the man with clay, Athena breathed life on its clay figure.

Prometheus gave Epimetheus the task of giving the creatures of the earth various qualities such as quickness, restraint, strength, fur, feathers. Unfortunately, when he arrived at the man, Epimetheus gave all good qualities, and no one was left to human beings. Therefore Prometheus stood upright like God and decided to give him firepower.

Prometheus loves other people than the Olympic athletes and they are banishing most families to Tatarus. Therefore, when Zeus had to present part of each animal, he would sell to God, and Prometheus decided to deceive Zeus. He made two mountains, one bone wrapped with juicy fat and the other with good meat hidden with leather. Then he told Zeus to pick him up. Zeus picked a bone. As he had already said his own words, Zeus had to accept this pile as a share of the future sacrament. His anger for this trick, he set fire from the human hand. But Prometheus illuminated the solar flashlight and brought it back to humans. Zeus was angry about this man's fire again. He decided to impose severe penalties on men and prometeus

To punish humanity, Zeus made Hephaestus create amazingly beautiful humans. The gods gave a lot of wealth to deadly gifts. Then he asked Hermes to give a deceiving deceased tongue and a lying tongue. This creation is Pandora, the first woman. The last gift was a forbidden opening of Pandora. After this was done Zeus sent Pandora to Epimetheus which remained among the men.

Prometheus warned Epimetheus not to accept the gift of Zeus, but the beauty of Pandora was wonderful, he allowed him to stay. After all, Pandora 's curiosity about her forbidden open bottle made her excruciating. She opened the bottle and jumped out all sorts of evil, sorrow, plague, and misfortune. But there is something good at the bottom of the bottle - hope

Zeus was angry with Prometheus as he was fooled by suspects, stealing fire for human beings, and refusing to tell Zeus Zeus who kids would destroy him . Zeus grabbed Prometheus with his servant, strength and violence, took him to the Caucasus Mountains, and tied him to a hard-to-break chain. Here, he was tortured by a huge eagle staring at the liver day and night. Zeus gave Prometheus two torture ways. He can say that Zeus, which is the mother who can kill his own child, or can meet two conditions. The first is that the immortal must die voluntarily for Prometheus, and the second is that humans must kill the eagle and lift his bondage. Finally, Chiron the Centaur agreed to die for him, Hercules killed the eagle and lifted his bondage.

In Greek and Roman myths, Prometheus is regarded as a human life giving person. He went to Mount Olympus, stealed fire from the sacred place and handed it to a small human. Prometheus tried to bridge the gap between death and immortality and was locked forever on the rock as a punishment. Frankenstein of Mary Shelley develops mainly on the idea of ​​creating a new life. This novel entitled "Contemporary Prometheus" is a novel about Geneva's young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is obsessed with simulating natural marvels. Following the death of her mother, Victor hid herself in the experiment and did not escape this obsession. He completely separates himself from friends, family, and society, "pursues all souls or feelings for this" and re-creates the pursuit of life (Shelley 40)

Shelley expressed Frankenstein as "contemporary Prometheus" using the quotation in the text as the subject of the novel. In Greek mythology, Prometheus was the defender of human beings, stealing fire from the gods and being punished for everlasting suffering (eagle that ate his liver every day, nature was retaliated against the destruction of the natural order I said I was doing it). As Frankenstein tried to create the life of human beings, by drawing this fable, Shelly morally suggested that humans would imitate the gods or try to destroy the order of nature . Shelly gave the moral of her own story creed by drawing an allegorical legend as its longevity is authority