Prometheus

By Liberty Wu __**About Promethues(**____Προμηθε____ύς____**)**__

 Prometheus is a very important character in [|Greek mythology]. He is the son of Iapetus and Theism and he is the grandson of Gaia .He is the one who charging human-beings. He teaches people a lot of different knowledge and give them lots of help. He was credited with – or blamed for – playing a pivotal role in the early history of mankind. During the [|Greek War of Independence], Prometheus became a figure of hope and inspiration for Greek revolutionaries and their philharmonic supporters.

__※Προμηθεύς is the Greek words of Prometheus, it means forethought in English.__

**__The Punishment of Prometheus__** Prometheus committed two mistakes, and they both angered Zeus.
 * In the trick at Me cone, Prometheus played a trick on Zeus. He placed two sacrificial (the food which serves to [[image:huameieng4u-02/504.jpg width="196" height="328" align="right" caption="The eagle is eating Prometheus's liver,Moreau"]]the Gods) offerings before the Olympian: one is a packet of meet, and the bull's bones and the other one is only bones. Zeus chose the largest one, and there was only the bones inside. Zeus felt very angry, but he did nothing.

 In the end, Heracles saved him and he lived with chains on his foot.
 * Even though Zeus felt very angry about Prometheus's behavior, but he only warning to Prometheus. Anyway, Prometheus did not listen to Zeus. He stole fire for people, this made Zeus and every Gods really mad. Zeus decided to sent [|Pandora] (the first woman in the world) to live with man. Then Zeus chained Prometheus in Caucasus and sent an eagle to eat his liver. Every night his liver would regenerated, and the next day the eagle would come and eat his liver again.

Prometheus and Anthem = = Anthem is a novel written by Ayn Rand. It takes place in the future and it is a society that full of rationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking (socialism). Also the technology is going back to the past. Being individuality is forbidden, and if they use words which are unspeakable (e.g. I), they will be punished by death. In this terrible society, there is one person who is different from others. His name is Equality 7-2521

**__Equality__**

Equality is totally different his "brothers", he is much taller and stronger than others and he has his own though too. He is more curious than others, so he wants to learn more and know more about the world. Later in the novel, he discovered electricity and he told the World Council, but the they didn't admire his work. He escaped, and he went into the forest which had no body else inside. Finally, he decided to live in the forest with his lover Liberty5-3000. He picked a name for himself as Prometheus and Gaia for Liberty.

**__The similarities between Equality and Prometheus__**

__**To sum up, Prometheus and Equality are both heroic sufferer, and they brought new hopes and life to human-beings. They were overcome by the superior power higher authorities but will never bend their inflexible mind.**__

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