How can the lightning that Victor uses to animate the monster be compared to the fire that Prometheus steals from Zeus in Frankenstein?

In a sense, Victor Frankenstein steals from nature the
power of the lightning, the fire of the sky, to generate life into his creature,
actions much like the mythological Prometheus's actions.  Prometheus has used divine
breath to create human beings from clay and water, and then has stolen fire from the god
Zeus to give to humans so that they can live.  However, in some versons of this
myth, Athena did not breathe life into Prometheus’ clay figures to make the
people. 

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Instead, the myth explains that
Prometheus needed the energy of the fire to give the clay figures the “spark of
life.”

So, with
this myth there are, certainly, parallels.  With both the fire of Prometheus and the
lightning of Victor Frankenstein, the metaphor of illumination as knowledge/science
without balance are comparable.  Man, of course misuses fire just as the creature, after
attaining knowledge, misuses it for his revenge against Victor.  Both Prometheus and
Victor are punished for their thefts as they are sentenced to torture.  Prometheus is
chained to a rock in the Caucasus Mountains where an eagle comes each day to eat at his
liver, leaving at night for it to grow back so that the torture will last eternally. 
Interestingly, the setting of Frankenstein is often in the Alps,
and it is through these frozen mountains that the psychologically tormented Victor
pursues his torturer.  Like Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein pays a dear price for his
hubris in making himself a creator by exploiting nature and
exceeding his human
limitations.