Pandora's Box Research Paper

“Have you ever been so desperate to know a secret that you took no notice of a warning?,” states the first line in the story of Pandora, written by an unknown source, about a woman whose curiosity got the better of her. The tale is a perfect example of a myth, a type of folklore. There are several examples of this. First, the story mentions and contains godly characters, both male and female, such as “the goddess Athene,” and “the most powerful of all Gods, Zeus.” Second, like most myths, it provides a theory as to how certain things in the natural world came to existence, without much factual information to back it up. In this case, it explains how we have all the “terrible evils” like misery, death, and sadness, which the story believes is caused by Pandora opening a box she wasn’t supposed to.