“Prometheus” is a term popularly attributed to tricks. In the Greek’s mythology, we found out that Prometheus was one that was referred to as a “titan” whose reputation wasn’t far from cleverness and trickery as was seen in how he gave the human race the gift of fire and the skill of metalwork. The action of him being a trickster led to his punishment by Zeus who ensured every day that an eagle ate his liver and was changed to a rock leaving him with no help. He was also a great fore thinker and championed the cause of victory by Zeus to gain mastery of the heavens which according to history lasted for a decade. A very common ambiguity of Prometheus is his “double sidedness” as was narrated by Coleridge in his essay titled, “The Composition and Revision of Coleridge’s Essay on Aeschylus’ Prometheus”. Coleridge explained that Prometheus switched sides and supported the victorious Olympians when his advice of using trickery failed. An example of Prometheus being a trick is seen in his double sidedness in the way he refused to die when being punished by Zeus. Here Prometheus was chained to a rock (or pillar) and Zeus sent an eagle to eat the Titan’s liver. Even worse, the liver re-grew every night and the eagle returned each day to perpetually torment Prometheus.

Further example of the trickery or double-sidedness of Prometheus is also seen in the conversion I have picked from the book Oryx and Crake. “Crake wasn’t Crake yet, at that time: his name was Glenn. Why did it have two ns instead of the usual spelling? “My dad liked music,” was Crake’s explanation, once Jimmy got around to asking him about it, which had taken a while. “Henamed me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two ns.” “So did he make you take music lessons?” “No,” said Crake. “He never made me do much of anything.” “Then what was the point?“Of what?” “Of your name. The two ns.” “Jimmy, Jimmy,” said Crake. “Not everything has a point.” Snowman has trouble thinking of Crake as Glenn, so thoroughly has Crake’s later persona  blotted out his earlier one. The Crake side of him must have been there from the beginning, thinks Snowman: there was never any real Glenn, Glenn was only a disguise. So in Snowman’s reruns of the story, Crake is never Glenn, and never Glenn-alias Crake or Crake/Glenn, or Glenn, later Crake. He is always just Crake, pure and simple. Anyway Crake saves time, thinks Snowman. Why hyphenate, why parenthesize, unless absolutely necessary? (pg 41)

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