Persuasive Essay On Pandora's Box

A small majority of people believe that one person having great amounts of power can hold down a nation, keeping them locked, unified, even with the heavy authority, keeping it from rebelling or no wrongdoing. In some cases this is a perfect strategy, although I heavily disagree.One way power is used badly is in the story Pandora’s box, Prometheus wanted to help the humans, Prometheus founded them living in caves and holes in the Earth, shivering from the cold, dying of starvation,and getting hunted by wild beast. Prometheus believed that fire could help improve their way of life, so he went up to Zeus and asked for fire. Instead of giving it to them, Zeus was outraged he believed they didn’t deserve even a spark of fire, he

She was brought down by Hermes and given to Prometheus’s brother Epimetheus as his wife. Pandora was given a golden casket, which Jupiter told her held many precious things had been inside of it. but wise Athena, the queen of the air, had warned her to never to open it, nor look at the things inside.The more she thought about the golden casket, the more curious she was to see what was in it; and every day she took it down from its shelf and attempted to feel what was inside, she opened the lid a bit, to peer inside. All at once there was a whirring, rustling sound, and before she could shut it down again, out flew ten thousand strange creatures with death-like faces and gaunt and haggly forms, such as nobody in all the world had ever seen. They flew for a little while about the room, and then flew away to find homes of menkind. They brought diseases and worries, for mankind had not worried about anything, nor heard of diseases, but these terrible creatures brought diseases and death with them.These creatures flew into every house, and, without any one seeing them, nestled down in the bosoms of men and women and children, and put an end to all their happiness; and ever since that day they have been flitting and sneaking , unseen and unheard, over all the land, bringing pain and sorrow and death into every