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This article aims to show how Mary Shelley reworks the Greek and Roman myth of Prometheus through her portrayals of three protagonists in Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, namely Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s creature.
In investigating her reworking of the ancient myths, the paper primarily looks at her main
concern with the theme of transgressive desire which she constructs in various ways, by
making an effective interlocking structure narrated by three main characters. Her adaptation of
the Prometheus myths involves her perceptions of contemporary age, when they were greatly
interested in the possibility of creation of life through the power of science. In addition, it
conveys her vision of forthcoming danger and problems of science, which originated from
man’s unswerving ambition to be like God. The article explores such layers of significances
which underlie her creative adaptations of the two Prometheus myths.