Examples Of Personification In Perseus

Prometheus is the son of the god Zeus, who disobeys his father and gave humans fire. In "Prometheus” he states, ‘“It is very greedy; you must feed it twigs until it becomes a proper size. Then you must stop, or it will eat everything in sight- and you too’” (Evslin 57). This personification can tell the reader how fire actually is since they both have greed and know how concreted greed is making it ideally difficult to stop. They can also infer how dangerous it is for the people to have such thing since they are not sure what it is yet but it can “eat them.” The goddess Pandora is given everything including curiosity, the most important trait. While reading “Pandora”, it says “Hermes gave her a beautiful golden box, which he told her, she must never open. And then Hera gave her gave her curiosity” (Evslin 60). This foreshadowing lets the reader infer what happens next is not going to end in a fitting way for her. When given, curiosity she is given the qualities she never realizes how dangerous it can be, so with this the reader can infer she is an exceptionally naive young girl.
When he reaches his destination, he describes the monster as “Swollen black tongue forced her mouth open, showing the yellow fangs of her teeth. Her fingers and toes were brass claws, and, worst of all, each golden hair was now a living hissing snake” (Evslin 114). Medusa is characterized as repulsive and dreadfully dangerous with her fangs, claws, and black tongue. The reader can also infer she might have been an admirable character in the past with her golden hair, but must have done something wrong along the way given that she now has serpents on her