...question of its own unbinding, a question that makes Prometheus, in the words of Shelley's Preface, "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends."6 For Prometheus to be so impelled does not mean that...

...wish no living thing to suffer pain." As a model for the image of Bloom, Prometheus is described as "the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." In his own Preface9 dealing with influences for the...

...own mind.6 In his preface to Prometheus Unbound Percy Bysshe Shelly claimed that "Prometheus is ... the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives of the best and noblest ends."16 Mary Shelly described her husband as a spiritual...

...There was no need, in his mind, to "weight his faults with his wrongs," as in the case of Satan, for Prometheus is "the type of the highest perfection...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends.3 Shelley loved Bacon, and Shelley saw in the Promethean tragedy the human tragedy. And Shelley...

...authority of power."23 In his introduction to Prometheus Unbound, Shelley explained that his hero was "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the true motives to the best and noblest ends."24 Byron praised Prometheus directly: "Thy godlike crime...

...magnificent fiction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends. (133) In describing Prometheus in the image of Milton's Satan, Shelley constructs his hero in the tradition...

...Prometheus' quest for forbidden knowledge was unquestionably a good thing. Shelley described Prometheus as: 'the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends' (Matthews, 1970, p. 205). After all, the gift of fire...

...of Peacock, who prudently sidesteps the effect of drama on "life and manners" (490). Shelley's own Prometheus is "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature" (133). Whether imaginary or historical, such a personage is a human "type"—not a mere sign for ideas...

...Champion with the Oppressor of mankind." No, Prometheus was to be a romantic protagonist of his own time: "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends."28 We will take our plan From the new world of man,...

...than a lament on its limitations. Redeemed by many years of suffering, Shelley's Prometheus has become 'the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends'. As the work opens, Prometheus appears 'nailed to...