Pandora According to Greek myths, Pandora, which meaner "all-gifted", was the first woman on Earth and made out of clay by Hyphenates under Zeus order. Pandora was made for vengeance, Zeus had her made to give to Euphemisms, brother of Prometheus as revenge for giving fire to mortals. Other gods gave her talents such as beauty, persuasion, curiosity, music, etc.
To make her more appealing to Euphemisms. At her wedding Zeus gave Pandora a beautiful box, which he instructed never to open.Although she fought off the urge for a long time, Pandora compelled by her curiosity opened the box. When it was opened all the evils were released into the world, except for one that she managed to keep in by shutting the box, Hope.
The story of Pandora parallels the story of Adam and Eve in Book of Genesis, the first. Pandora was the first mortal woman in Greek history, while Eve was the first in Hebrew history. Both women had something forbidden to them, since they were both ordered by their respective god to leave a certain object alone.Though in the end, they could not resist the urge and brought evil into a world that had previously been perfect and without sin.
The two stories have yet another similarity, as the Snake in the Bible tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, Hermes and Hear gave Pandora the qualities to want to open the box. Without the cunning mind and curiosity given to her by the god and goddess, the box most likely would have remained closed forever. Another similarity between the two stories is the lesson it teaches about women. Read also essay about Zeus Actions in Prometheus Bound.
An idea that can be gathered is that women are the ones that spread lies and evil throughout the world. So essentially, what the two stories mean are that women are the root of evil and only cause trouble for men who otherwise would be happy and without suffering as Adam and other mortal men were before women did what they were forbidden to do. The term "Pander's Box" is an idiom often used, even in today's times. So to "open a Pander's Box" basically meaner a situation that caused unexpected problems or complications.An example of "Pander's Box" is in the short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson, in the story a man and a woman are offered a button if they press it they will receive $50,000 dollars, but a person they do not know will die.
So, the couple remains plagued and when the wife chooses to press the button, basically "opening the box", the unforeseen consequence occurs which is her husband dying. The other consequence was a horrible realization revealed to the wife in the last line of the short story by the owner of the box, "My dear lady...Do you really think you knew your husband? " Pandora was created solely to be used for revenge, and she opened the box only because she was made to be that way, so evils like sickness and greed could be used to punish the mortals.
Pander's story is so similar to Eve's the two are constantly compared to one another due to their major parallels. Also, from this story the term "Pander's Box" is obtained and still used today, as a common allusion seen in literature and media. By Cheerleaders
