Hera In The Golden Box

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Apollo goes hunting for the Python who hunted his mother. The angry god not only shoots the Python once but shoots "him so full of arrows he looked like a porcupine"(Evslin 37). This simile provides a vicious image of the dead serpent. Equally important, it characterizes Apollo as vengeful and brutal because he is not satisfied with only killing him but shoots him consecutively. Also, it is perceived how much he must care about his mother to avenge her suffering.
Pandora, the girl Zeus molded from clay, was given a gift from each god as commanded by Zeus. However, the two gifts which stand out the most are Hera's gift of curiosity and Hermes's "golden box […] which she must never open"(Evslin 60). Immediately, both gifts stand out and are able to be connected. The ill-fated, arranged combination foreshadows Pandora's failure to keep the golden box sealed. It also provides insight on Zeus's scheming plan.
King Midas swears his servant to secrecy after showing him his donkey ears. However, a problem arises when the servant feels that "he would burst if he didn’t" tell (Evslin 195). Through the metaphor, the author displays the servant's inability to keep the secret and exhibits an understanding of his anxiety. Nevertheless, it also characterizes him as …show more content…
After Midas learns of the pivotal impediments of Apollo's gift of being able to turn anything he touches, including his food, into gold, he calls Apollo traitor and false and proclaims, "you punished me with a gift!" (Evslin 194). The situational irony is apparent in the gift that Apollo gives Midas because, meanwhile, a gift is supposed to be a happy gesture, in this case, it is more of a punishment for Midas. However, through this irony Apollo's objective for Midas is clear. Apollo is teaching him a valuable lesson through his gift. Paradoxically, the cursed gift appears to make sense because although it brings Midas affliction, it also brings him
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