Pandora’s Box 

Pandora was the wife of a man named Epimetheus. She was a gift from the gods, his brother, Prometheus told him not to expect any gifts from the gods. But he didn’t listen to him and married Pandora.

Zeus The God of the Sky and Thunder gave Pandora a beautiful box on her wedding day. There was only one condition, she could never open the box. Pandora couldn’t understand why she was given the box if she wasn’t allowed to see what was inside it. 

Thought’s of opening the box consumed her, finally she couldn’t take it anymore. So when her husband was out of sight, she snuck into the room where the box was. Taking the key off of the wall she unlocked the box, but at the last minute she felt guilty and knew how mad her husband would be if she opened it, so she locked it back and put the key back where she found it. She did this three more times, unlocking it then locking it back and putting the key away. The thoughts of opening the box still consumed her. She couldn’t take it anymore, she thought she would go mad if she didn’t see what was in the box. 

She took the key and unlocked the box, expecting to find a teacher or beautiful dresses. But she found none of that stuff, instead she found all of the horrible evils that Zeus would think of and put them into that box. Disease, poverty,misery, death, and sadness all came out of the box shaped like tiny buzzing moths. They all stung Pandora over and over again, she slammed the lid of the box shut, Epimetheus came running into the room to see why she was crying. Pandora could hear a voice calling to her from the box, asking to be let out. Epimetheus agreed that there wasn’t anything else inside the box other than the horrors that had already been released. So they opened the box again. Out of the box spring Hope in the form of a dragonfly, it touched the wound made by the evil creatures. Even though Pandora had realized Pain and suffering upon the world she also released Hope to follow them.