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= = __Part 1:__ Mary Shelly’s 19th century novel, Frankenstein, is often called the Modern Prometheus after the story of Prometheus, who was interested in the knowledge of the gods. Dr. Frankenstein, similar to Prometheus, was influenced by knowledge of the unknown. Frankenstein was intrigued by human nature and creation. He studied different sciences for months to try and defy what was known about creation and birth. With this creation of his, Frankenstein created a ‘person’ without the natural ways of biology and essentially was playing God, through science. By the time Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein, she had already been pregnant and had a miscarriage, which brought her to explore ideas of birth. “In //Frankenstein//, Mary Shelley examines her own fears and thoughts about pregnancy, childbirth, and child development.” (Woodbridge) In her novel Frankenstein gives birth to a human being but in means that defy the natural laws of human creation. There was no man and woman creating a child, but rather a curious scientist who goes beyond what is known of science to create his monster. “In Shelley's text, then, the author attempts not only a dissection of the (male) Soul as a product of the Romantic age, but she also pushes forward the boundaries of knowledge of 'feminine' creation.” (Woodbridge) Shelly explores the ideas of birth and different ways of birth through her character of Victor and thus, Victor plays the role of God in the novel. By creating a being, by changing and defying the established laws of nature, Shelly’s character of Frankenstein is playing God. Ruth Bushi said “The deification of science as described in Shelley's work depends upon the defiance of God.” The whole novel is based on the idea of “the deification of the Natural world, and Man himself,” (Bushi) which was a theme of the romantic era of literature during this time. [|Essay 1] [|Essay 2]
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Prometheus Unbound is an anecdote of disobedience and infatuation. Prometheus rebels against the gods to provide fire to humanity. "Then beneath the earth those hidden blessings for man, bronze, iron, silver and gold-who can claim to have discovered before me? No one, I am sure, who wants to speak to the purpose. In one short sentence understand it all: every art of mankind comes from Prometheus"(A quote from Spark Notes, Prometheus Unbound). In addition, this quote shows what Prometheus has done for the humans and what he is really living for. Also, this quote shows how Prometheus can be seen as a leader because for humanity because he revolts against the Gods by not listening because he was doing what he thought was right and what would benefit the humans. In the middle of the novel, Prometheus went against Jupiter and to resolve their conflict, Prometheus accepted Jupiter’s agreement of being chained to a rock and had a bird eat his liver for having taken the fire from the gods. Although Prometheus undergoes a lot of torture, he is still willing to fight for what he was living for, humanity. But of course, for every action that is good, there is always something that happens to the people that you helped. In addition, Prometheus is attracted to Asia, which in this part he is showing a bit of character because he is showing passion to the person that he loves. But of course, this could not have happened without the overthrow of Demogorgon. "Jupiter is overthrown by Demogorgon, and unchained, Prometheus is reunited with Asia in a forest cave"(Prometheus Unbound Summary-Google).
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__Part 2__ __Stories__: __Prometheus and I Robot__ They both involve an individual endeavor to advance humanity. In Prometheus he makes clay models of humans in order to populate the earth. On the other hand in the film I Robot, Dr. Alfred Lanning has created robots in order for humans to rely on their assistance. He later realizes that what he’s done will eventually create chaos and decides to build a robot that will develop his plan of destruction towards the robots.

__Characters__: In Prometheus, Jupiter suspects of Prometheus wrongdoing and eventually punishes him. Similarly in I Robot, Detective Del Spooner is prejudice against the robots and suspects evil from them. Dr. Lanning also suspects of the robots taking over the world and decides to come up with a master plan to destroy them.

__Trying to be God__: Prometheus teaches humans how to create fire and Dr. Lanning creates robots.

__Breakdown__: As a punishment by the gods Prometheus is chained to a rock for over 30,000 years. In addition, Dr. Lanning dies in order for his plan to destroy the robots is developed.

__Their Dreams Die__: Prometheus brought humanity an evil that would eventually kill them all because of his attempt to help mankind. On the other hand, Dr. Lanning created robots that instead of being helpful to humans were destructive.