1. Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
HADFIELD The essence of the Frankenstein myth is contained in this dream. What began with a simple dream became twenty-one months of work that resulted in the publication of Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus on March 11, 1818. ... In Anne Mellor's work, "Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein," published in 1990, Mellor states: Above all, Mary Shelley associated her modern Prometheus with Percy Shelley, who had already announced his desire to compose an epic rebuttal to Aeschylus" Prometheus Bound when he reread the play in 1816, although he did not begin writ...
- Word Count: 3377
- Approx Pages: 14
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate
