Stories have been told to all who will listen for thousands of years and they are passed down from generation to generation different, affecting each of them in a different way. The ancient Greeks used this technique and believed in the story of a god named Prometheus that he stole fire from the gods of Olympus and gave it to man. As punishment for this action, Zeus has him chained to the side of a mountain where he must let an eagle devour his heart, in some versions it is his liver, the organ will then grow back during the night to be eaten away again. the following day. Prometheus never submits to Zeus's will and shouts abuse at him throughout his punishment, never regretting the action he took that led to such a terrible outcome. Mary Shelley was greatly moved by this story and turned it into her own horror story, known today around the world as Frankenstein. The story was changed with each new story or film director who decided to add their own vision to Shelley's original work. The original is the story of a man named Victor Frankenstein who wishes to create life and in doing so becomes an obsessed grave robber and ultimately creates the life he was looking for only to find the grotesque and frightening creature and it will end by ruining his life. “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is responsible for a creative transformation worthy of her mad scientist prototype, Victor Frankenstein: she thus reconfigures, recontextualizes and modernizes the myth of Prometheus by means of a “tedious and bad luck ghost story”. Focusing on issues of paternal neglect and the need for responsible creativity implicit in what is perhaps the paradigmatic myth of the Romantic Frankenstein movement; or, The Modern Prometheus...... middle of paper ......roup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&inPS=true&prodId=LitRG&userGroupName=wylrc_wyomingst&tabID=T001&searchId=R1&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤ tPosition=3&contentSet=GALE%7CA122815797&&docId=GALE|A122815797&docType=GALE&role=LitRC> ThirdWalling, William A. “Frankenstein.” Mary Shelley. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972. 23-50. Rep. in 19th century literary criticism. Ed. Jessica Bomarito and Russell Whitaker. Flight. 170. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Information Resource Center. Internet. March 31, 2014. fourth