Your memory is a monster; you

forget - it doesn't. It simply files

things away. It keeps things for you,
or hides things from you - and
summons them to your recall with a
will of its own. You think you have a
memory; but it has you!

- John Irving (American novelist,

b.1942)
Frankenstein, or The Modern
Prometheus
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797-1851)
WHO IS PROMETHEUS?
• One of the Titans of
Greek mythology
(powerful beings at
war with the gods)
• Created human beings
• Gave them gifts,
including alphabet
• Stole fire
• Tricked Zeus
• Punished by having
liver eaten daily
 THE EPIGRAPH
• Epigraph: a quotation
at the start of a book
or chapter that
suggests the theme
• Epigraph in
Frankenstein from
Paradise Lost (1667)
by John Milton