Prometheus Unbound Analysis

of Jupiter in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound: in both the defiant spirits are so expressive. In addition, kinds of punishment that might have been inflicted on both figures were similar (Aman 44-7).
Ted Hughes’s Prometheus on His Crag A twenty-one poem sequence, Prometheus on His Crag records speculations of a revolutionary spirit that is reshaped by the same thing it shapes: creative revolution. Tied to his crag, Prometheus feels his plight. “Chained to his crag for stealing fire and giving it (and therefore life) to humans, Prometheus is visited each day by a vulture that eats his liver…Prometheus tries to understand the paradox of his predicament” (Gifford 44).
However, he feels self satisfaction: And now, for the first time Relaxing

The implausible action of achievement is made possible through an image of effacement: “He had resolved God/ As a cow swallows its afterbirth” (287). The implication is that God-like tyrants can be toppled over if they are debunked. In poem 8, Prometheus feels defeated at a point of his speculation. He “lay astonished all his preparations/ For his humanity/ Were disablements he lay disabled” (289). However, his revolutionary spirit gets over this stumbling astonishment. “He spoke it was a scream” (289). In poem 12, Prometheus gives an artistic expression to his speculation. Like Al-Shaby’s, “he had begun to sing/ A little before dawn/ A song to his wombs” (291). In poem 14, an image of a vicious circle of mutual whippings on earth is formed. He “Sees the wind/ Whip all things to whip all things/ The light whips the water the water whips the light/ And men and women are whipped/ By invisible tongues” (292). Time and again, in poem 15, the revolutionary spirit expresses an undying desire for freedom despite his

Seen together, all facets crystallize an image of the revolutionary spirit that has been, and will always be, shaped and reshaped by creativity. Hesiod’s Prometheus marks the separation of mankind from gods. Hesiod’s Theogony asserted that a revolutionary spirit needs power specially when fighting a strong invincible tyrant as Zeus/any tyrant-leader. Therefore, Hesiod’s poem can be said to represent the first stages of resistance and protest against the then so strong tyrant-leader. Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound represents another stage in the struggle against the tyrant. Reconciliation between titan and tyrant symbolizes the temporary pseudo peaceful periods that occurred when promises had been made by a tyrant regime. Goethe’s Prometheus underscores the importance of human creativity and asserts an overwhelming desire for protest in the face of the tyrant. This stage reflects people’s despair after promises had been unfulfilled. Therefore, the rebellious spirit/Prometheus shows adamant will for defiance against gods/ rulers. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound endorses the importance of setting oneself free from one’s own fear which binds and renders a person unable to rebel. The confrontation with the phantasm of Jupiter let Prometheus give full vent to his feelings. This is reminiscent of every confrontation between tyrants and rebels in countries of the Arab spring and everywhere else.