ENGB30 Lecture Notes - Sylvia Plath, Aeschylus, The Injury
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Some significant innovation in shelly"s version of the myth. Prometheus is freed, but not through reconciliation with jupiter. Perhaps most radical change, nowhere else in mythology is depicted as falling from his throne. Etymology: demos = world/earth; gorgos = terrible/that which strikes terror into. In shelley"s work, demogorgon is described as follows: In traditional mythology marries her off rather than court her due to the prophecy of her creating a child more powerful that zeus. Prometheus" sense of personal wrong (suffering/persecution) eclipsed by a greater sense of cosmic wrong. Love, power are mismatched and creates a world where nothing is right. References of how love is what is going to win in the end. Prometheus is an emblem of love and triumphs over the tyranny of jupiter. See an envisioning of what would like to see the world being. Did not believe that the hero, prometheus, should have reconciled with zeus, who was responsible for his torture.