Prometheus Deception Research Paper

A short quote from Lauryn Hill states, “Reality is easy. It’s deception that is the hard work.” While that claim may be easy to argue, in Mythology, deception is often the strongest attribute of a trickster. It’s often that tricksters go outside the boundaries of moral righteousness to accomplish a specific task. Today, deception is given a bad connotation, but not all tricksters use deception to carry out villainous acts. Tricksters work in a variety of ways, including being self beneficial or societally beneficial. For many, the philosophy influences the inspiration that they use to possibly carry out acts against a protagonist. In the case of Prometheus, he directly goes against Zeus to help mankind. While Prometheus may have been somewhat ignorant to disobey the rule of the Olympian God Zeus, he did it because he

In Prometheus and the Theft of Fire, Fleischmann explains that the myth begins with Prometheus playing a trick on Zeus. As the gods sat down to eat the Titan Prometheus decided to trick Zeus. Zeus is the leader of the Olympian pantheon, meaning he is a powerful and respected god. Knowing this, Prometheus proceeded to present two different meals to Zeus. One being meat and the other being a bone wrapped in dried fat. Unaware of the trick, Zeus picked the bone wrapped in dried fat. After this, humankind began so sacrifice bones wrapped in fat, while keeping the tastiest foods for themselves. When Zeus finds out he decides to punish humankind. Fleischmann explains this incident by stating, “Zeus is furious at this deception and decides to punish the humans, even though it was truly Prometheus who wronged him.” So, he takes the secret of crops and fire away from the humans. After Prometheus witnessed the harness of Zeus’s punishments towards the humans he decided to steal fire back by using a giant rod from a fennel plant, which he delivered back to