Abstract
Even before Shelley, Francis Bacon had observed that the name Prometheus meant Providence. While Bacon was able to identify distinctions between divine and human providence, he presented a fusion of the two aspects since character is seen as the epitome of the quality of human life. Although Shelley had thought much about Milton's concepts wherein divine Providence attempts to ‘justify the ways of God to men’, he had not appropriated his notion of Providence. In The Cenci, Providence represents the sovereignty of the Christian God — which he believed to be merely something invented by humans. This chapter explores how Providence has contributed in a way to understanding history in the Judaeo-Christian context.
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