Victor, Sailor, and Prometheus
Victor, Sailor, and Prometheus
What are the similarities between Victor Frankenstein, the sailor from “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and the figures from “Prometheus”. The three stories of these characters can tell you. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the story of Prometheus.
Victor Frankenstein a young Swiss boy, he grows up in Geneva reading books by old alchemists, and he goes to the university at Ingolstadt. There he learns about modern science and masters all the things that his professors have to teach him. He becomes fascinated with the secret of life and creates a horrible monster. Victor changes over the course of the novel from an innocent youth fascinated by science into a letdown, guilty man determined to destroy his arrogant scientific creation. Victor cuts himself off from the world, eventually committing himself entirely to his obsession with revenging himself upon the monster. At the end of the novel, having chased his creation ever northward, Victor relates his story to Robert Walton and then dies.
The sailor from “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is unnaturally old, with skinny, deeply-tanned limbs and a "glittering eye." He sets sail from his native country with two hundred other men who are all saved from a strange, icy patch of ocean when they are kind to an Albatross that lives there. Spontaneously, he shoots the Albatross with his crossbow and is punished for his crime by a spirit who loved the Albatross. His punishment was the dead Albatross (seabird) being hung around his neck. “Ah! Well a-day! What evil look had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung (line 139-142).” Rooney, Kathleen. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)." Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation. He is cursed to be haunted indefinitely by his dead shipmates, and to be compelled to tell the tale of his downfall at random times. Each time he is
What are the similarities between Victor Frankenstein, the sailor from “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and the figures from “Prometheus”. The three stories of these characters can tell you. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the story of Prometheus.
Victor Frankenstein a young Swiss boy, he grows up in Geneva reading books by old alchemists, and he goes to the university at Ingolstadt. There he learns about modern science and masters all the things that his professors have to teach him. He becomes fascinated with the secret of life and creates a horrible monster. Victor changes over the course of the novel from an innocent youth fascinated by science into a letdown, guilty man determined to destroy his arrogant scientific creation. Victor cuts himself off from the world, eventually committing himself entirely to his obsession with revenging himself upon the monster. At the end of the novel, having chased his creation ever northward, Victor relates his story to Robert Walton and then dies.
The sailor from “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is unnaturally old, with skinny, deeply-tanned limbs and a "glittering eye." He sets sail from his native country with two hundred other men who are all saved from a strange, icy patch of ocean when they are kind to an Albatross that lives there. Spontaneously, he shoots the Albatross with his crossbow and is punished for his crime by a spirit who loved the Albatross. His punishment was the dead Albatross (seabird) being hung around his neck. “Ah! Well a-day! What evil look had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung (line 139-142).” Rooney, Kathleen. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)." Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation. He is cursed to be haunted indefinitely by his dead shipmates, and to be compelled to tell the tale of his downfall at random times. Each time he is