Pandora's Box

Pandora's defining trait is her curiosity

Pandora's defining trait is her curiosity. From the moment she arrives at Epimetheus's cottage, the mysterious box consumes her thoughts. She circles

One of Hawthorne's most subtle

One of Hawthorne's most subtle and significant additions to the original myth is the shared guilt of both children. In many versions of the myth, Pand

The deepest and most enduring theme

The deepest and most enduring theme of the story is Hope. After all the Troubles have burst out of the box and into the world, Pandora hears a gentle

The entire story functions as

The entire story functions as an allegory — a narrative in which the characters, events, and objects represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. The

The world Hawthorne describes before Pandora

The world Hawthorne describes before Pandora opens the box is explicitly Edenic: food grows without farming, children play without quarrelling, there