Prometheus suffers because he steals fire from the gods to help humanity, but this angers Zeus and he punishes Prometheus for eternity. He suffers for eternity because he was trying to help his creation, he wanted to enlighten them. Frankenstein was not there for his creation, he never “pityed him enough to be there and never took responsibility,” so he suffered at the hands of his creation (Hustis 112). His creation allowed him to suffer as much as he could by killing his loved ones. If Frankenstein had taken pity on his creation, as Prometheus did, he might have been able to help his creation live in this world, but since he did not, his creation grew to resent him and made sure he was suffering from his