Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley can be interpreted as a chilling warning about the dangers of ambition and overcoming science. Mary Shelley was already aware of the works of scientists such as Erasmus Darwin and was influenced by writers such as Byron when, “at the age of nineteen, she achieved the quietly astonishing feat of looking beyond them and creating an enduring symbol of the dangers of scientific Prometheanism ” (Joseph, 1998, p, xiii). The fact that Shelley parallels his story of Frankenstein with the myth of Prometheus is interesting and gives an immediate idea of ​​the extent of the criticism he directs at Victor Frankenstein's scientific ambition. In one version of the Prometheus myth (Prometheus Pyprphoros) he brought down fire from the sun to rescue humanity, and was then punished by being chained to an eagle that feasted on his liver in a perpetual cycle. In another version (Prometheus Plasticator) he animated a man from clay in an act of usurpation of God. Frankenstein's downfall can be taken as a metaphor for both versions and is key to understanding that, while Shelley orchestrates the downfall of Victor, presents his actions as a warning of what horrors blind scientific ambition can wreak on humanity. Many people who have done despicable actions in history would try to blame, or at least offer as an explanation, terrible things that may have happened in their childhood. Shelley is sure that, in the case of Frankenstein, he clearly states that this does not apply here. As Victor himself explains to Robert Walton, “No human being could have had a happier childhood than mine. My parents were possessed by a spirit of kindness and indulgence” (Shelley, 1998, p...... middle of paper ...... the father's rejection of his study of alchemists which had spurred him on, in Walton's account the case went against his father's “death injunction” (Shelley, 1998, p, 17) by going to sea "Frankenstein's obsession with life." (Joseph, 1998, p, ix). By bringing these two men together and using the story of one to save the other, the author shows us that perhaps there is hope for the future and it is still possible for man to save himself from his own ambition. “Through the work of Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelly launches a powerful criticism of the initial scientific revolution: of scientific thought as such, of the psychology of the modern scientist and of the commitment of science in the discovery of the "objective" truth, whatever the consequences" (Mellor)