Kaddish (The X-Files) that love is the central conceit of the episode. Although, in the myth of the Golem, the creature is soulless, Gordon took "some liberties" with the legend. He wanted "Kaddish" to "literally be about resurrection". Ariel creates an imperfect reflection of her husband by crafting the Golem from mud. In essence, she is trying to play God, a role that Gordon later likened to Victor Frankenstein, the scientist from Mary Shelley's famous novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" (1823). However, Ariel and Frankenstein differ in the fact that Ariel's flaw was related to her "loving [Isaac] too much, not being
The Prometheus Deception The Prometheus Deception The Prometheus Deception is a spy fiction thriller novel written in 2000 by Robert Ludlum about an agent in an ultraclandestine agency known only as the Directorate named Nick Bryson, alias Jonas Barett, alias Jonathan Coleridge, alias The Technician, who is thrown into a fight between an organization he knows as Prometheus and his former employers at the Directorate. Like other Ludlum novels, "The Prometheus Deception" conveys Ludlum's concern about the accumulation of power by individuals or organizations. Whereas some of his prior novels, such as "The Holcroft Covenant" and "The Aquitaine Progression" featured conspiracies by governments