However, the greatest similarity between the two lies in their suffering for the unforgivable transgressions committed against the gods, or God in Victor's case. They both suffer isolation and rejection, Prometheus chained to a rock having his liver eaten nightly, Victor becomes obsessed with the creature which isolates him and infuses his life with innumerable suffering, until he dies in his quest for the monster.
"Victor verges on inhuman – he doesn’t seem to have “normal” emotional reactions to any of the events in his life. He cuts himself off from the world, eventually devoting the remainder of his life to one obsession: Destroying the monster he created."
Comparing the use of fire between the two stories, fire contains the essence of life, as in a spark which ignites life in Victor's creature. For Promethus, fire, in the hands of man, his beings, allows this race of men to advance and grow into a society of people. The discovery of fire by man marks a leap in his development as a thinking creature capable of not only surviving, but advancing.