Prometheus stole fire from the Greek Gods and gave it to the humans. To punish him, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where an eagle picked at his innards. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is subtitled The Modern Prometheus. It takes place in the 19th Century, when modern technology was limited. Frankenstein is about well-educated men who try to push the limits but fail. Like Prometheus these educated men are tortured after their overconfidence causes them …showed first 75 words of 750 total…

…showed last 75 words of 750 total…overconfident and egotistical. Victor Frankenstein, the Creature, and Robert Walton are examples of overconfidence from education. Frankenstein learns from experience that too much education can lead to one’s demise; “How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town is the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow” (932). Frankenstein, the Creature, and Walton are tortured resulting from their overconfidence.