In the 1818 novel Frankenstein, the creature’s creator is Victor Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley’s novel is not a direct retelling of Pandora’s myth, but it is often discussed alongside it because both stories involve forbidden knowledge, creation, and consequences that escape human control. Victor Frankenstein studies natural philosophy and secretly constructs a living being. His experiment succeeds, but he immediately recoils from the creature and abandons responsibility for it.
The full title is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The subtitle explicitly compares Victor with Prometheus, the Greek figure who steals fire for humanity and is punished by Zeus. That comparison makes the novel a major modern work connected to the Promethean tradition rather than to the Pandora story alone.
A common mistake is calling the creature “Frankenstein.” In Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein is the creator’s surname; the creature is never given a personal name. Film adaptations popularized the shorter title and sometimes changed characters, settings, and plot details.