Your memory controls you rather than you controlling it. It stores information that it chooses to reveal or hide from your recall whenever it wants. The document discusses John Irving's quote about memory and provides context on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, including who Prometheus is in Greek mythology, his creation of humans and gifts to them, his tricking of Zeus, and punishment. It also defines what an epigraph is and notes Frankenstein's epigraph is from Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Your memory controls you rather than you controlling it. It stores information that it chooses to reveal or hide from your recall whenever it wants. The document discusses John Irving's quote about memory and provides context on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, including who Prometheus is in Greek mythology, his creation of humans and gifts to them, his tricking of Zeus, and punishment. It also defines what an epigraph is and notes Frankenstein's epigraph is from Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Your memory controls you rather than you controlling it. It stores information that it chooses to reveal or hide from your recall whenever it wants. The document discusses John Irving's quote about memory and provides context on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, including who Prometheus is in Greek mythology, his creation of humans and gifts to them, his tricking of Zeus, and punishment. It also defines what an epigraph is and notes Frankenstein's epigraph is from Paradise Lost by John Milton.
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