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"he saw and lov'd the beauteous suppliant, nor could conceal aught that might appease her..." (Blake).

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“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest?” (Shelley 148).

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"I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe" (Shelley 77).

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Being punished for trying to do something that they think is good, Frankenstein, Prometheus, and Samson  all feel this pain. This is a common theme among the three works.
Frankenstein suffers from depression. This causes him to wish for his own death, but when it doesn't come he views his existence as miserable and a punishment for what he has done.
Samson loves his wife Delilah and is infatuated with her beauty. This beautiful creature, however, tricks him and he tells her the secret of his hair. Delilah uses this against him so that he may be caught and apprehended. This betrayal by Delilah and her cutting his hair seems to be punishment for trusting her. Beyond that, he is punished by God by Him taking away Samson's power.

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"Here Prometheus was chained to a rock (or pillar) and Zeus sent an eagle to eat the Titan’s liver. Even worse, the liver re-grew every night and the eagle returned each day to perpetually torment Prometheus" (Prometheus).

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"'Thy power is more than mortal, none can hurt thee; thy bones are brass, thy sinews are iron. Ten thousand spears are like the summer grass; an army of mighty men are as flocks in the valleys'" (Blake).

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"'Though I should tell her all my heart, what can I fear? Though I should tell this secret of my birth, the utmost may be warded off as well when told as now.' She saw him moved, and thus resumes her wiles'" (Blake).

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"'Who says that thou wast born of mortal kind? Destruction was thy father...'" (Blake).

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S5qDx8NEtwT8uxtOFagaGK-KCNxU945lSU0gqmIU35Y/edit

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Just as Frankenstein and Prometheus have similarities in characterization, some of these can be found in a similar theme - looking for beauty and knowledge but finding destruction and punishment for their actions instead - shared between Frankenstein and the poem "Samson" by William Blake.

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Blake, William. “Samson.” PoemHunter.com, Samson Dawit
Agegnehu, 3 Jan. 2003,
www.poemhunter.com/poem/samson/.
Cartwright, Mark. “Prometheus.” Ancient History
Encyclopedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia, 25 Nov.
2018, www.ancient.eu/Prometheus/.
“Sadness of Frankenstein.” Life and Death,
www.twghczm.edu.hk/subject/eng/page/Frankenstein/
Frankenstein/Sadness%20of%20Frankenstein..htm.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. PenguinGroup, 2013.

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Frankenstein Prometheus, and Samson all had good intentions, but were punished for those actions. Prometheus by being chained to a rock, Frankenstein by losing his little brother, and Samson by being betrayed by his wife.

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"'Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy - to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim'" (Shelley 153).

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"Zeus punished man for receiving the fire" (Prometheus).

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"Prometheus raided the workshop of Hephaistos and Athena on Mt Olympus and stole fire; he then gave the valuable gift to mankind" (Prometheus).

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Frankenstein wishes to give a new life to his creation, just as Prometheus wanted to give a new way of life to the human race.
Delilah has a life born of destruction just as the monster was born from death, and Samson was born with a God-like power, just like the monster.

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"I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption" (Shelley 54).

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Dr Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein displays some of the same characteristics and development as Prometheus from the Greek myth Prometheus where they both are wanting to advance the human race through new ways of life or what could be seen as a new birth.

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Prometheus's Influence on Dr Frankenstein

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Prometheus's Influence on Dr Frankenstein

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Fire is often a symbol for life. Prometheus gave fire to the humans as if to give them life, so that they might create and build and survive, just as Frankenstein gives life to his monster. And just as Prometheus is cast out of the society of the gods, his influence on Frankenstein causes the doctor to be cast out of his society because of his creation as well. Also, as Prometheus created what he thought was good but ended up destructive towards him instead, Frankenstein created the monster in hopes of beauty and glory, which backfired to where he suffered for his bold thinking.